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When your pet feels under the weather, you need quick answers in the least stressful way possible. Ultrasound offers this solution. This safe, gentle, and non-invasive technology allows us to see inside your pet’s body —without surgery or radiation.
Heart (Cardiac) Ultrasound
A heart ultrasound, also known as an echocardiogram, helps us to understand your pet’s heart function. It reveals the heart’s size and shape, valve performance, and blood flow patterns. This proves helpful if your pet has a heart murmur, irregular heartbeat, or breathing issues. We also use it to monitor conditions like heart failure, congenital defects, or cardiomyopathy. This information enables us to create a treatment plan tailored to your pet’s specific needs.
Abdominal Ultrasound
Abdominal ultrasounds allow us to examine your pet’s internal organs—such as the liver, kidneys, bladder, spleen, pancreas, and intestines. This scan aids us in discovering the reasons behind vomiting, diarrhea, weight loss, or urinary issues, and it can even detect problems like stones, tumors, or internal bleeding. Since it provides live imaging, we often obtain results.
The Benefits of Ultrasound Examinations
Risk-free and painless – Sedation is rarely required, while the examination remains easy for animals to undergo.
Definitive answers within moments – as with other imaging, ultrasound scans allow us to verify information promptly, often allowing us to inform you on the same day.
Determines further procedures – when a fluid or tissue sample is necessary, an ultrasound scan enables us to obtain it accurately and with minimal risk.
Relief – An ultrasound scan allows you to understand your pet’s internal health, whether to eliminate worries or to confirm diagnoses.
Preparations
Your pet may have to fast for several hours before an ultrasound of the abdomen to enable us to obtain optimum images. We will carefully shave the region to be scanned, spread some gel, and then use a small probe to get the images. Most pets rest with ease throughout the 30–45-minute procedure. Heart ultrasounds follow the same protocols.
How Your Pet Benefits
Animals can show illness too late, but with ultrasound imaging, we can identify health concerns early, monitor developments, and choose the best treatment options. This diagnostic tool can be used to detect heart conditions and other concealed issues within the abdomen, making it extremely useful in pet care and maintaining pet health.
Our goal is simple: to give you simple, clear answers and offer your pet the best possible care. Ultrasounds enable us to do just that with minimal stress for you and your furry friend.
