Dx & Tx

As a referral and after-hours emergency veterinary hospital, our veterinarians do not provide wellness, prophylactic or primary care. We promote pet wellness by encouraging pet owners to schedule annual visits with their family veterinarians. Our doctors focus on their areas of specialized medicine to provide your patients with the expertise needed to diagnose and treat uncommon and complex illnesses.

BluePearl provides the following services in our Northbrook hospital:

Cardiology

Conditions we often treat:

  • Canine valvular disease
  • Dilated cardiomyopathy
  • Canine congestive heart failure
  • Congenital heart defects
  • Pulmonary and systemic hypertension
  • Arrhythmias (slow or fast)
  • Conduction diseases
  • Feline cardiomyopathies and secondary congestive heart failure (CHF)
  • Feline aortic thromboembolic events (FATE)
  • Syncope

Critical Care

Services we provide:

  • Continuous vital signs monitoring
  • Intravenous fluid therapy
  • Nutritional support
  • Blood transfusion
  • Oxygen supplementation
  • Pain relief

Internal Medicine

Services we provide:

  • Chronic management of endocrine diseases, blood and circulatory system, heart, lungs, kidneys and bladder.
  • Ultrasound procedures
  • Bone marrow biopsy and aspirates
  • Video endoscopy; rhinoscopy, cystoscopy, bronchoscopy and gastrointestinal endoscopy

Oncology

Diagnostics

  • Biopsy
  • CT
  • Cytology
  • Digital radiography
  • MRI
  • Ultrasound

Treatments

  • Chemotherapy
  • Melanoma vaccine
  • Surgery

Surgery

Conditions we often treat:

Soft-tissue surgery involves state-of-the-art techniques such as shunt implantation, arthroscopic surgery, laparoscopic surgery, and thoracoscopic surgery.

  • Tumor resection from the gastrointestinal tract including the esophagus, stomach, intestines, and colon; urinary and reproductive organs; liver, gall bladder and bile ducts
  • Plastic and reconstructive surgery
  • Cardiovascular surgery including surgery to correct congenital and acquired anomalies of the heart, remove cardiac tumors and implant pacemakers
  • Repair of the upper and lower respiratory tract
  • Hernia repair
  • Management of chronic ear disease and aural tumors.

Orthopedic surgery addresses bone and muscle injuries using bone plating and interlocking nail fixation, external skeletal fixation, arthroscopic surgery, laparoscopic surgery, and thoracoscopic surgery.

  • Sports injuries including fractures, ligament and tendon injuries such as cruciate ligament tears and patellar luxation
  • Degenerative diseases such as hip dysplasia, elbow dysplasia and limb abnormalities
  • Infections
  • Tumors
  • Congenital conditions
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