VCA ASEC is among the largest surgical groups in Southern California, in business for over 30 years. With multiple, board-certified surgeons on-site 7 days a week for consultations and procedures, VCA ASEC provides your pet with an unmatched depth of expertise. VCA ASEC’s surgeons employ the latest technology for all types of surgery and have published articles in veterinary journals for over 25 years.

Here are just a few of the reasons why over 1600 veterinarians refer their challenging surgical cases to VCA ASEC:

• Multiple surgeons can scrub in on each case, minimizing operative and anesthetic time and enhancing patient care.
• Multiple specialists means multiple perspectives and opinions instantly available for any given case.
• Unmatched depth of expertise: VCA ASEC’s team of surgeons has many decades of combined experience.
• We are always happy to get on the phone and talk through cases.
• Surgeons are available 24/7/365 for emergency cases requiring immediate surgery.

Surgery Department Services:

• Soft Tissue Surgery
• Reconstructive Surgery
• Cardiac Surgery
• Oncologic (Cancer) Surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Stem Cell Therapy
• Myelography
• T.P.L.O. (Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy)
• Orthopedic Surgery
• Arthroscopic Procedures

VCA ASEC’s specialists provide minimally-invasive procedures 7 days a week. Minimally-invasive procedures speed healing and provide optimal patient outcomes. Our specialists perform and teach these techniques regularly.

Minimally Invasive Abdominal Procedures:

• Exploratory laparoscopy
• Biopsies: gastrointestinal (full-thickness), liver, kidney, spleen, pancreas, lymph nodes, masses
• Laser Ectopic Ureter Ablation
• Ovariohysterectomy & ovariectomy
• Cryptorchidectomy
• Laparoscopic & endoscopic Gastropexy
• Gastrotomy
• Percutaneous laser cystic calculi ablation
• Cystotomy
• Nephrectomy

Minimally Invasive Thoracic Procedures:

• Lung lobectomy (neoplasia; spontaneous pneumothorax)
• Non-infiltrative thymoma removal
• Thoracic duct ligation for chylothorax
• Pericardiectomy
• Biopsies: lung, pleural, & hilar lesions
• Pyothorax exploratory

Stents & Interventional Radiology:

• Tracheal Collapse
• Ureteral obstruction (calculi, neoplasia)
• Urethral obstruction (calculi, neoplasia)
• Esophageal stricture (stent or balloon dilatation)
• Colonic obstruction (stent or balloon dilatation)
• Nasopharyngeal stenosis
  

Common Surgical Conditions:

• Bone Fractures
• Lumbosacral Disease (Cauda Equina Syndrome)
• Torn Cranial Cruciate Ligament
• Tumors