Another Day of Testing

Olivia gets to finish up her testing that started yesterday. She'll get one more series of pictures for her HIDA Scan. After her second series of pictures, very little to no dye had left her liver to enter the small intestine. Her final scan this morning will show if anything has moved out in the last 24 hours, hopefully there is some movement, which will show that there is movement of bile from the liver to the intestine, but just not as much as there should be. 

After her final HIDA Scan she'll get to have a liver biopsy. Yipeee !!!  

She'll also be visited by an opthomolagist sometime today to evaluate her for characteristics of Alagille syndrome. The majority of children with this syndrome have changes within the eye that should be evident at her age. Aliagille syndrome (while not a desired diagnosis) manages to explain a number of her issues -- Heart, Kidney, Liver, Metabolic Acidosis.

These three tests - the HIDA Scan, the Liver Biopsy, & the Opthalmic exam -- should help seperate out the two most likely candidates that are causing her liver problems.

It will be nice to just get a diagnosis so we can move on and figure out how to work with her issues.