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Diagnostic Technology

Our board-certified veterinary specialists in Burlington use diagnostic tests and tools to diagnose your pet's condition. 

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Veterinary Diagnostic Lab

At Burlington Veterinary Emergency & Referral Hospital, we leverage certain tools to help diagnose your pet's medical issues. We offer a variety of services, from onsite digital radiology to emergency ultrasound and MRI. 

We use radiographic imaging, which allows us to produce detailed images of your pet's internal structures. 

By employing diagnostic imaging capabilities, we can produce diagnostic data about your pet's condition and offer immediate treatment options. 

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Veterinary Diagnostic Care in Burlington

We conduct tests and get results quickly in our in-house laboratory so that we can diagnose your pet's symptoms and begin treatment as soon as possible.

Our in-house diagnostic capabilities are uniquely positioned to serve the needs of our busy emergency and specialty departments. From helping to diagnose acute conditions in emergency scenarios to providing vital information about your pet's chronic health conditions, our diagnostic lab are key to delivering veterinary care. 

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Our Diagnostic Services 

With our in-house veterinary diagnostics lab we are pleased to offer diagnostic testing to allow our vets to provide diagnosis of your pet's medical issues.

  • EKG

    If your veterinary specialist performs a physical examination and suspects your pet may have a heart disorder, we usually take chest X-rays and an electrocardiogram (ECG / EKG).

    This procedure can be completed easily and quickly. It reveals data that may be integral to your pet's diagnosis. In other cases, a cardiac ultrasound may be required to identify disorders in the chambers of the heart.

  • MRI

    Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) uses a powerful magnetic field, a computer, and radio waves to provide your veterinarian with high-resolution, detailed images of your pet's soft tissues such as the brain, spinal cord, ligaments, tendons, and abdominal organs.

    When it comes to many soft tissue injuries or diseases, veterinary MRI often provides a more detailed picture of your animal's body than other diagnostic imaging tools are able to provide.

    Our vets can then examine these images on a computer monitor or print them. 

    Some conditions that MRI can help to diagnose and treat include spinal issues such as tumors, herniated discs or stenosis; brain tumors and inflammation; strokes; musculoskeletal diseases and injuries including cranial cruciate ligament injuries; and abdominal conditions including organ enlargement or tumors. 

  • Radiography (Digital X-rays)

    Using a radiograph (digital x-ray), we can examine your pet's internal systems to reveal information that may be invisible from the outside. 

    Radiography is safe, painless and non-invasive. It uses only very low doses of radiation. Because the level of radiation exposure required to perform radiography is very low, even pregnant females and very young pets can undergo this procedure. 

    Radiographs can be used to evaluate bones and organs, and diagnose conditions including broken bones, chronic arthritis, bladder stones, spinal cord diseases and some tumors. 

  • Ultrasound

    The use of diagnostic imaging allows our team of veterinary professionals to create extremely detailed images of your pet's internal structures.

    With ultrasound imaging, we expose part of the body to high-frequency sound waves to produce images of the inside of the body. 

    Because we capture ultrasound images in real-time, we can see the structure and movement of your pet's internal organs, as well as blood flowing through the blood vessels.

    Having this valuable technology available to our vets in our in-house lab means that your dog or cat's condition can be diagnosed quickly and treatment can start sooner. 

  • Bloodwork

    At our vet lab in Burlington we are able to run a number of common and specialized blood tests to determine the health of your pet, and to diagnose illness.

    Some of the most common veterinary blood tests we do are CBC (complete blood count), white blood count, hemoglobin and MCHC (mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration), hematocrit, platelets, eosinophils, and blood serum profile. 

  • Urinalysis

    Urinalysis is a key diagnostic test that provides your vet with essential insights into the physical and chemical properties of your pet's urine.

    Urinalysis is primarily used to assess the health of your animal's kidneys and urinary tract system, but it can also be helpful in detecting issues in other organ systems and is important for diagnosing metabolic diseases such as diabetes.

    This is a valuable diagnostic test for both healthy and sick animals and should be included in any comprehensive evaluation of your pet's overall health. 

Emergency & Specialty Veterinary Referrals Welcome

Our emergency and specialty vets at Burlington Veterinary Emergency & Referral Hospital care for the health of Burlington companion animals. Refer your patient to us today.

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