Small Animal Internal Medicine

The Small Animal Internal Medicine Service provides specialty care to clients referred by private practitioners for internal medicine problems and special procedures.

Internal Medicine services

• Consultation by board certified specialists in small animal internal medicine
• Advanced diagnostic testing
• State of the art patient treatment and monitoring
• Twenty-four hour care
• Cancer diagnostics
• Advanced testing for endocrine, respiratory, gastrointestinal, urinary, blood, and infectious diseases

Clinical trials to advance internal medicine are also performed by the Internal Medicine Service.

Specialty procedures

• Radioactive iodine therapy to treat feline hyperthyroidism
• Endoscopy, a minimally invasive procedure of looking into the stomach, colon, esophagus, trachea, bladder, or nasal cavity of small animal patients
• Endoscopic laser lithotripsy to remove bladder and urethral stones from dogs
• Bone marrow aspirates
• Joint taps
• Collection of spinal fluid
• Inserting special catheters
• Small foreign body extraction