Lab diagnostics are the key to proper diagnosis
Veterinary Hospital Animal Clinic International specialists perform tests on cats, dogs and rodents. Some biomaterials must be taken directly at the veterinary center. These include blood, swabs and fingerprints, skin and coat scrapings.
You can also call the veterinarian at home to do the sampling of bodily substances in the comfort of the animal. The pet's feces and urine should be collected at home or during a walk for examination.
Blood tests for a dog, cat or rodent
To assess the body's functional indicators, a blood test is performed. Our veterinarians recommend that such diagnostics be performed every year. Such periodicity allows us to detect pathology before it begins to show external signs. The examination comes in the following varieties:
- General (clinical) blood test. Necessary for pets taken from the shelter. Also the examination is mandatory for foster pets who have diarrhea, vomiting, weight loss, frequent urination and increased thirst. For preventive purposes, a general blood test is done on elderly pets, animals with chronic ailments, and presumably healthy pets to make sure there is no health risk.
- Detailed biochemical blood test. It gives an understanding of how the organs work, revealing inflammatory processes as well as micronutrient imbalances.
If you need an explanation of analysis results, our professional will be happy to explain all the values in a simple form.
Pet fecal analysis
A fecal analysis of a four-legged patient gives the veterinarian an idea of the presence or absence of failures and pathological conditions. A fecal analysis of a dog, cat and rodent provides these options:
- Find inflammatory processes in the gastrointestinal tract.
- Understand how well food is being digested.
- Monitor the activity of the pancreas.
- Detect microorganisms that cause intestinal infections and dysbiosis.
Once you have your pet's feces analyzed, the professionals at our veterinary lab will examine it using a special coprogram.
Getting tested is an important part of the preparation for surgery
Is your pet scheduled for surgery? Then the laboratory diagnostics is important for him. It helps to avoid complications: make sure that general anesthesia will be safe for the body.
For patients at our veterinary clinic who are preparing for surgery, there is a pre-operative set of laboratory tests. To get correct results, our specialists use effective ways to analyze biomaterials: polymerase chain reaction, enzyme immunoassay, etc.
A complete list of veterinary laboratory services
Veterinary Hospital Animal Clinic International's in-house laboratory has all the modern equipment necessary to provide a full range of research services. These include processes such as:
- Blood draws.
- General blood analysis.
- Biochemical blood test.
- Preoperative blood test complex.
- Coprogram.
- Urinalysis.
- PCR test.
- ELISA diagnostics.
- Microscopy of smears and prints.
- Skin and hair scrapings.
- Microscopy of inorganic and organic inclusions of sedimentary nature.
Diagnostic results of biomaterials are provided to animal guardians in printed or electronic form. The information is stored in our database for a long time, so if you lose your documents you can contact our veterinary clinic to have them restored.