Available Services
Full Service Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
- Balloon dilatation for pulmonic stenosis, aortic stenosis
- Amplatzer ductal occlusion and coil embolization of PDA
- Diagnostic cardiac catheterization and angiography
Outpatient and Inpatient Echocardiography
- Three state-of-the-art echocardiography machines (Philips Sonos 5500 Color Flow Doppler and GE Vivid 7 Pro Color Flow Doppler)
- Outpatient and Inpatient Electrocardiography
- Two HP Pagewriter 300 machines
Owners may remain with their pet during routine outpatient cardiology visits (including the echocardiogram)
Outpatient and Inpatient Blood Pressure Determination
- Parks Doppler, Dynamap and Passport
Outpatient Ambulatory ECG Diagnostic Services
- Twenty-four hour Holter evaluation (for animals with diagnosed or suspected paroxysmal arrhythmia)
- Event monitoring (for recurrent syncopal activity)
- Inpatient continuous telemetric ECG recording
Full Service Pacemaker Program
- Transvenous pacemaker implantation (temporary, permanent)
- Surgically placed epicardial pacemaker implantation
Cardiac Surgery Program
(run in conjunction with the Angell Surgery Service)
- Pericardectomy
- Surgical PDA ligation
- Open valvotomy for pulmonic stenosis
- Epicardial pacemaker implantation
Minimally-invasive thoracic surgery program—thoracoscopy
- Pericardial window for recurrent pericardial effusion
- Exploratory thoracoscopy for idiopathic pleural effusion