Is your dog deficient in an essential red blood cell enzyme?
Pyruvate Kinase is a hereditary hemolytic anemia due to lack of the enzyme, pyruvate kinase, whose role it is to exchange glucose in to energy, when oxygen supply is low. There is no known cure for this deficiency and a low supply of this enzyme will mean that the red blood cells will break down faster than usual, resulting in hemolytic anemia.
Canines with this shortage can pass away by the age of five due to liver failure, myelobibrosis or osteosclerosis
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