Internal medicine focuses on dealing with prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases. Some examples of common disease that are seen in veterinary medicine include:

• Hematology: Immune-mediated diseases, anemia, and platelet disorders 

• Endocrine: Addison’s disease, Cushing’s disease, Diabetes, thyroid

• Gastrointestinal: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, gastritis, pancreatitis

• Infectious: Bacterial (Bordetella, E. coli, Pseudomonas, Staphylococcus), Viral (FeLV/FIV, Coronavirus/FIP, Herpes virus, Parvovirus), Fungal (Aspergillosis, Cryptococcus, Coccidiodomycosis), tick-borne (Anaplasmosis, Ehrlichiosis, RMSF)

• Urinary Tract Infections, kidney disease, kidney & bladder stones

• Respiratory: Upper respiratory infections, asthma, pneumonia 

At Glendale Small Animal Hospital, we take pride in practicing high quality and up-to-date medicine. We use our knowledge base and diagnostic tools (blood work, cytology, radiographs, and ultrasound) to diagnose various conditions and diseases, which we then formulate a plan to treat appropriately.