Surgery
The surgery service at Equitom is world-renowned. Tom Mariën has more than 28 years of experience and has built a rock-solid international reputation. Equitom is known around the world as «the clinic of last hope».
In recent years, he has built a team around him of 5 top surgeons and they operate on more than 3,000 horses a year. Mathieu Foucaud, head surgeon on duty, is committed every day to developing new surgical techniques with his team in order to push the boundaries of surgery as he and the team want to remain at the top in the future.
Equitom is equipped with
- 5 Recovery boxes
- 3 Operating Rooms for procedures under general anaesthesia
- 1 Operating Room for standing surgeries
Orthopedic surgery
- Arthroscopie (OCD, OC, osteochondral fragments)
- Fractures
- Arthrodesis
- Bone cysts
- Tenoscopy
- Facsiotomy and Neurectomy
- Palmar digital neurectomy
- Surgery of the neck (Wobbler syndrome)
- Surgery of the back (kissing spines)
- Pathologies of the hoof (wounds, keratomas, abscess)
Soft tissue surgery
- Recurrent laryngeal hemiplegia (roaring)
- Epiglottic entrapment
- Dorsal Displacement of the Soft Palate
- Epiglottic cyste
- Gutteral pouch mycosis
- Gutteral pouch empyema
- Gutteral pouch tympany
- Sinus and head surgery (ethmoid hematoma, sinusitis,...)
- Dentigerous Cysts
- Laparoscopic surgery
- Laparoscopic closure of the nephrosplenic space
- Laparoscopic ovariectomy
- Laparoscopic cryptorchidectomy
- Laparoscopic nephrectomy
- Tumor surgery
- Castration
- Cryptorchidectomy
- Ovariectomy
- Bladder Stone
- Melanoma removal
- Sarcoid removal
Emergencies
Ophthalmology and eye surgery
Dentistry
