Internal Medicine
When your pet’s health concerns go deeper, our Internal Medicine team is here to help. From complex illnesses to chronic conditions, we use advanced diagnostics and compassionate care to find answers and improve your pet’s quality of life.
Internal Medicine at 1st Pet Vet
A veterinary Internist, or Internal Medicine Specialist, is an individual who has received an additional 3 to 4 years of rigorous, advanced training in the diagnosis and treatment of disease involving internal structures of the body. This includes diagnosing and treating diseases affecting the heart, lungs, digestive system, hormones, urinary system, and hematologic (blood) systems, as well as oncologic (cancerous), infectious, and immune-mediated diseases. Internal medicine specialists have passed a rigorous certification exam and published peer-reviewed literature.
Internal Medicine Diagnostics
We utilize many state-of-the-art diagnostic tools including the following:
- Ultrasonography
- Endoscopy
- Echocardiography
- CT
- Digital Radiography
- Electrocardiography (ECG)
Internal Medicine Procedures
These are some of the more advanced procedures we perform:
- Abdominal and thoracic ultrasound
- Ultrasound guided biopsies and aspirates
- Blood pressure monitoring
- Bone marrow evaluation
- Chemotherapy
- Diabetes monitoring
- ECG Holter and event monitoring
- Echocardiography
- Enteral nutritional support
- Feeding tube placement
- Pericardiocentesis
- Respiratory therapy
- Total parenteral nutritional support
Frequently Treated Conditions
The following list is far from comprehensive, but includes many of the disease conditions that our Internal Medicine team frequently treats:
- Allergy testing and management
- Cancer treatments
- Chronic kidney disease
- Endocrine disease
- Heart disease
- Hepatic lipidosis
- Hypertension (high blood pressure)
- Immune mediated diseases (ex. Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), Canine immune-mediated hemolytic anemia (IMHA), Polyarthropathy)
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
- Liver Disease
- Pancreatitis
- Valley Fever