Surgery - Procedures

PVSEC Surgery provides specialty care and consultation for surgically related diseases in small animals. Specialized surgical services are available in the following areas:

Orthopedics

• Total Hip Replacement
  
• Lameness evaluation
• Fracture repair
• Bone plate fixation
• External skeletal fixators
• Pin/wire fixation
• Circular fixators for distraction osteogenesis (bone lengthening)
• Joint surgery
• Cruciate ligament repair: Extracapsular suture reconstruction
• Tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO)
• OCD (Osteochondritis Dissecans)
• Arthrodesis (joint fusion)     
  

 Soft Tissue - General Surgery

• Thoracic: Lung tumors, heart surgery (PDA, pericardial disease, heart-based tumors), mediastinal tumors, rib masses.
• Abdominal: Gastrointestinal surgery, kidney diseases, portocaval shunts, bladder surgery, liver masses/biopsies, splenic tumors, adrenal tumors, hernias, elective gastropexies (stomach tacking), complicated urogenital surgery, urethral stenting.
• Perineal: Hernias, tumors, anal sac disease.
• Head and Neck: Laryngeal paralysis, thyroid tumors, mandibular/maxillary tumors and fractures, ear canal surgery (including total ablation, Zepp, bulla osteotomy)
• Tracheal surgery: tracheal ring prosthesis, tracheal stenting
  

Minimally Invasive Surgery 

• Arthroscopic joint surgery (Shoulder OCD, Elbow dysplasia, OCD of the Knee, Biceps tendonitis)
• Thoracoscopy:  lung biopsy/tumor resection, pericardial disease, chylothorax
• Laparoscopy: gastropexy, liver biopsy, cystotomy, ovariohysterectomy, cryptorchid castration

Neurosurgery

• Myelography
• Disc Disease-Hemilaminectomy, ventral slot decompression, dorsal laminectomy
• Cervical spondylomyelopathy (Wobbler)
• Spinal fractures
• Brain surgery