Therefore, I will recommend surgery only if the risk associated with surgery is less than the risk of continuing with medical management. There is always a small risk the dog may not make it through anesthesia/surgery, is permanently worse, or never improves.
1 The blood tests most frequently used for liver disease are the aminotransferases (alanine aminotransferase or ALT and aspartate aminotransferase or AST). 2  Normal levels of ALT ranges from about 7-56 units/liter, and 10-40units/liters for AST.
Liver function tests are one of the blood tests that are most frequently performed to examine the function of the liver or injury caused to the liver. SGOT and SGPT are two of the a number of enzymes that are determined as part of the liver function tests so about assess the functioning of the liver and if there is any injury or disease caused to the liver.