Internal Medicine

We have numerous types of diagnostic equipment to aid full medicine work ups and cases.

Common conditions treated

• Coughing dogs
• Vomiting/diarrhoea
• Anaemia’s – non regenerative/regenerative including haemolytic anaemia
• Polydipsia/polyuria including
  • Raised Liver enzymes/ Liver disease
  • Raised Renal enzymes/ Renal disease
  • Adrenal disease- Addisons/Hyperadrenocorticism
  • Diabetes
  • Dysuria
  • Fever Unknown Origin

Imaging

• Thoracic/Abdominal Radiography
• Thoracic/Abdominal Ultrasonography
• CT scanning
• MRI scanning
• Endoscopy
  • Rhinoscopy
  • Bronchoscopy
  • Gastroduodenoscopy
  • Colonoscopy
  • Cystoscopy

Sampling techniques

• Lung
  • Bronchoalveolar lavage
  • Trans tracheal washes
  • Endoscopic biopsy
  • Percutaneous ultrasound guided fine needle aspirates masses
  • Gastrointestinal System- endoscopic pinch biopsies
    • Gastric biopsies including masses
    • Duodenal biopsies
    • Ileal biopsies
    • Colon endoscopic pinch biopsies
    • Percutaneous ultrasound guided fine needle aspirate GI masses
    • Abdominal organs
      • Liver- Ultrasound guided fine needle aspirate /tru cut biopsy
      • Gall bladder- Ultrasound guided fine needle aspirate
      • Renal- Ultrasound guided fine needle aspirate /tru cut biopsy
      • Spleen- Ultrasound guided fine needle aspirate
      • Abdominal lymph nodes- Ultrasound guided fine needle aspirate
      • Abdominal masses- Ultrasound guided fine needle aspirate
      • Prostate/bladder-
        • Cystoscopy
        • Ultrasound guided fine needle aspirate/ catheter suction biopsy

Other services

• Foreign body retrieval via endoscopy (gastric/nasal/pulmonary)
• Bone Marrow aspirate and biopsy
• Transfusion medicine including immunoglobulin transfusions