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 Minneapolis hospital:

Dentistry

Services we provide:

  • Crowns
  • Histopathology
  • Intraoral digital dental films
  • Orthodontics
  • Oral surgery
  • Periodontal therapies
  • Rotary endodontics
  • Continuing education opportunities

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

Neurology

Conditions we often treat:

  • Diseases of the spine, including fractures of the back
  • Herniated discs and spinal cord injuries and disease
  • Seizures
  • Vestibular/balance disorders
  • Meningitis/encephalitis
  • Stroke
  • Wobbler’s disease/cervical spondylomyelopathy
  • Neuromuscular diseases
  • Chiari-like malformation/caudal occipital malformation syndrome
  • Brain and spinal cord tumors

Services we provide:

  • Telephone consultations for referring veterinarians
  • Spinal and skull radiography
  • Myelography
  • Transcranial ultrasonography
  • CT scans
  • Spinal tap with cerebrospinal fluid analysis
  • Spinal surgery (hemilaminectomies, ventral/cervical slots, dorsal laminectomies, atlantoaxial stabilization, and spinal stabilization)
  • Craniotomies

Oncology

Services we provide:

  • Diagnosis and staging
  • Definitive and palliative treatment options
  • Chemotherapy treatment
  • Biopsies
  • End of life counseling for animals with cancer
  • Medical acupuncture (physiological and anatomically based) including electric stimulation for a variety of oncological and non-oncological conditions

Ophthalmology

Services we provide:

  • Telephone consultations for referring veterinarians
  • Diagnostics and medical management for a wide variety of chronic, non-responsive intra- and extraocular diseases including cataracts, glaucoma, keratoconjunctivitis sicca, ulcerative keratitis and uveitis
  • Canine Eye Registry Foundation (CERF) Examinations
  • Corneal surgery for deep ulcers and dystrophies, including conjunctival grafts and corneal transplants
  • Cryotherapy and traditional surgical intervention for eyelid diseases
  • Electroretinography for retinal function evaluation
  • Extraocular surgery including eyelid mass removals, prolapsed third eyelid gland reduction (“cherry eye” surgery), blepharoplasties, including entropion, ectropion and brachycephalic syndrome corrections
  • Glaucoma medical and surgical treatment including diode laser and valve therapies
  • Intraocular surgery for lens luxation and intraocular disease, including artificial lens implantation and cataract and luxated lens removals
  • Ocular ultrasound
  • Parotid duct transposition for non-responsive KCS
  • Retinal evaluations including electroretinograms (ERGs) for inherited and acquired retinal degeneration
  • Retinal surgery with diode laser
  • State-of-the-art  phacoemulsification and artificial lens implantation for cataracts

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.

  • Remove tumors in 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