liver disease

My baby Diesel, only 5 year old, is supposed to weigh 80 pounds. He weighs 60. His dramatic weight loss led me to the vet. We did bloodwork, his ALT liver count was EXTREMELY HIGH a month ago, I had it rechecked, it went up, and rechecked on Saturday, up again. Normal levels are below 118-ish...

I thought I'd start a thread where can dump all articles we stumble across about CAH/liver disease in one place to be used a resource/reference. (both journal articles and more lay articles to cover all levels of understanding). If there's a thread already like it somewhere....I apologise for...

My new puppy has been diagnosed with a liver shunt. What should I do? My new vet is leading me to surgery. I just had to put down my 10 year Dobie after not making it through a tumor removal. My family had a hard time when I put the 10 year old down. Be easy on me with your answers this...

...and he'd been improving enough to convince myself he was ok & just a stress baby. (doing the mental head kick to myself now for not trusting my instincts and pushing the vet to do the tests I requested in the first instance! grrr @ me! ...there was a part of me that knew he still wasn't...