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 world-renowned as «the clinic of last hope».
In recent years, he built a team of 5 top surgeons around him and they operate 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.
In that way, he and his 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 surgery
Orthopedic surgery
- Arthroscopy (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 : reinervation, ventriculocordectomy, tie-back procedure (standing or general anesthesia)
- Epiglottic entrapment
- Dorsal Displacement of the Soft Palate
- Eppiglottic 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
- Laser surgery
- Bladder Stone
- Ovariectomy
- Melanoma removal
- Sarcoid removal
Emergencies
Ophthalmology and eye surgery
