| Endoscopy:
Mountain
Empire Animal Hospital has acquired a Storz fiber optic video
endoscopy system. While it does require general anesthesia, endoscopy
allows the non-invasive visualization of accessible structures.
Most commonly, this is used to look at the stomach and duodenum
or the rectum and colon. Findings are both immediately viewable
and also recordable by Polaroid images. This system allows us
to make accurate diagnoses (and therefore accurate treatment)
of many chronic gastrointestinal diseases as well as retrieve
many foreign bodies without the need of surgery. Our goal is to
expand this technology to be able to visualize the respiratory
system as well as the urinary system.
|