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Internal Medicine

We can see a vast variety of referral internal medicine conditions in both canine and feline patients. We have numerous types of diagnostic equipment to aid full medicine work ups and cases.

Dr Ian Hopkins

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

Internal Medicine

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