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Image-Guided Interventional Services at CVETS
Image-guided interventions involve the use of special imaging techniques such as fluoroscopy (live time X-rays), endoscopy (small cameras), ultrasound, and computed tomography (CT) to perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in pets.
All About Image-Guided Interventional Services
These techniques are also referred to as interventional radiology and interventional endoscopy. Image-guided interventions are performed using small or no incisions making them minimally invasive techniques.
Minimally-Invasive Procedures
There are many advantages to image-guided interventions including: shorter hospital stays and recovery times, reduced complications, treatment for conditions with no other available options, and reduction in risks to pets compared to conventional therapies.
Airway
- Tracheal stenting for collapse and tumors (click to learn more)
- Bronchial stenting for collapse
- Airway foreign body retrieval
- Nasopharyngeal stenosis therapy
- Tracheal mass therapy
Gastrointestinal
- Endoscopic foreign body retrieval
- Esophageal stricture dilation and therapy
- Colonic stenting for tumors or strictures
- Feeding tube placement (esophageal and gastric)
- Gastric mass therapy
Hepatobiliary (liver/gallbladder)
- Intravascular coil embolization of intrahepatic liver shunts
- Gallbladder drainage
Urinary
- Renal (kidney) drainage
- Sclerotherapy for idiopathic renal hematuria (bleeding from the kidney)
- Subcutaneous ureteral bypass (SUB) placement
- Ureteral stenting for stones, strictures, or tumors
- Urethral stenting for strictures or tumors
- Endoscopic laser lithotripsy (stone fragmentation) for bladder and urethral stones
- Endoscopic laser ablation of bladder and urethral masses or polyps
- Endoscopic laser ablation of ectopic ureters (click to learn more)
- Endoscopic urethral collagen injection for incontinence
Laser Lithotripsy
Endoscopic laser lithotripsy is a procedure used to remove bladder and urethral stones in dogs and cats. A veterinarian uses a small, flexible tube with a camera (endoscope) to see inside the bladder and urethra, then employs a laser to break the stones into tiny pieces.
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