Mountainside 24/7 Animal Emergency

Internal Medicine

What is Internal Medicine?
Internal medicine encompasses a wide range of specialized healthcare services including gastroenterology (e.g. chronic diarrhea, vomiting, pancreatitis, weight loss, colorectal disease), endocrinology (e.g. diabetes, Cushing’s disease, hyperthyroidism,etc), respiratory health (e.g. nasal diseases, chronic pneumonia, asthma, etc), hepatology (e.g. congenital liver disease, hepatitis, etc), auto-immune and bone marrow health, infectious diseases, renal health (e.g. acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, etc), urology (e.g. bladder stones, chronic UTIs) and oncology staging and restaging (evaluating patients for the extent of their cancer).

Internists also have additional experience with cardiology, neurology, oncology and nutrition, and they will often provide initial evaluation and then work alongside specialists in these fields providing targeted care when needed. Internal medicine includes advanced diagnostics to address each pet’s complete health needs such as ultrasound, endoscopy, cytology and biopsy sampling, bone marrow sampling and collection of advanced laboratory tests. Internists are detectives treating pets with challenging needs who require complex care and access to our hospital’s unique resources. Our board-certified internal medicine specialist has many years of working with pets who are beloved family members.
Our internal medicine department is available by referral from Monday-Thursday. Please contact your primary care veterinarian for a referral.
What to do to prepare for the appointment:
Our internal medicine department evaluates the most complex cases, those that are difficult to diagnose and therapeutically manage. In order to do that, we need as many records from other veterinarians as possible. Please help ensure we have everything we need by reaching out to any veterinarians that have seen your pet in the last 5 years (or if this is a lifelong problem then as complete records as possible will be helpful) and requesting that they send us ALL medical notes, lab results, x-rays and any other diagnostic tests and results 1-3 days prior to your appointment.
Please let us know if you have any issues in having these records sent and if we can assist in any way.
What diagnostic and therapeutic services does internal medicine provide?
Procedures/Services
Ultrasound
Upper GI endoscopy (esophagus, stomach, duodenum) and biopsies
Foreign body retrieval
Feeding tube placement
Colonoscopy and biopsies
Abdominocentesis
Biopsy services (endoscopic, tru-cut, punch biopsy, image guided, laparotomy- assisted
Bronchoscopy/BAL and airway washes
Tracheoscopy/ rigid and flexible
Rhinoscopy/ rigid (limited) and flexible
Pericardiocentesis
Thoracocentesis
Bone marrow aspirate
Bone marrow core
Proctoscopy
Cystoscopy
Vaginoscopy
Additional services:
Urethral stricture/ urethral TCC ballooning
Collagen bulking
Nasopharyngeal stenosis ballooning
Esophageal ballooning
Electro Snare cautery polyp removal
Partial parenteral nutrition
Oncologic Staging
Feline Peritoneal dialysis (limited)
Treatment of small cell GI lymphoma