Advanced Surgery

What expertise and surgeries do we offer?

At Blackburn Animal Hospital, we perform complex surgeries that often go beyond general practice. Both Dr Kang and Dr McKee are highly experienced surgeons who routinely handle procedures typically referred to specialists. With their combined expertise, your pet can receive advanced surgical care in a familiar and caring environment.

​Our routine advanced surgeries include:

• Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) rupture repair: TWO (Tibial Wedge Osteotomy), DeAngelis / extracapsular repair: Restoring your pet's mobility

• Medial Patellar luxation (MPL, also called loose kneecap): Restoring your pet's joy of running

• Advanced cancer resection and management

• Anal Sacculectomy (Removal of anal glands): Relieving pain, irritation & scooting

• BOAS (Brachycephalic Obstructed Airway Syndrome) surgeries: Helping your pet breathe easy again

• Eye surgeries: Cherry eye repair, Dry Eye surgery (parotid duct transplant), Conjunctival flap, Keratectomy, Tarsorrhaphy

• Fracture Repairs

• Laryngeal Paralysis (Tieback)

• Urogenital Surgeries: Urethral prolapse, Perineal Urethrostomy

• And much more!

Advantages of our surgeries

Our ability to perform advanced surgeries provides many advantages:

• Familiar faces to comfort your pet through their recovery

• We're also familiar with their parents and achieve effective communication

• Our staff are highly trained in safe hygiene practice

• We have a very effective pain control management

• We treat every patient like our own family.

• Always performed by a senior vet with 9+ years of surgical experience