Service

Surgery

The Ottawa Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Hospital is proud to offer specialized surgical services. Dr. Hélène Le Pommellet is currently accepting referrals, and we offer surgical and consultation services four days a week. Please reach out to our surgery team for more information.

Dr Hélène Le Pommellet

Specialty Veterinary Surgery Service

Dr. Le Pommellet passed the American College of Veterinary Surgery Boards in 2018 and she has been working as a small animal surgeon in the South of France for 3.5 years before working for 1 year as a surgery instructor for Novetech Surgery teaching surgical techniques in France, Italy, Portugal and in the UK.

Dr. Le Pommellet loves everything about surgery. Her favourite interests are in traumatology, wound management, skin reconstruction, oncology surgery, neurology surgery and thoracic surgery. Dr. Le Pommellet’s goal is to provide the most appropriate care to fit the needs of her patients and their families, in the most compassionate way.

About the service

Procedures and Surgeries

Dr Hélène Le Pommellet has the expertise to perform orthopaedic surgery (TPLO: the most frequently performed surgery by Dr Hélène Le Pommellet, arthroscopy, fractures, TPO, angular deformity correction…), neurosurgery and soft tissue surgery (oncologic, cardiac, pulmonary, endocrine, digestive and urinary). See our entire Surgical list below :

Orthopaedic surgery

  • Fractures (all size, all types)
  • CCL surgery (TPLO, Lateral fabellar suture)
  • Medial/lateral patellar luxation
  • FHO
  • Medical management of osteoarthritis in dogs
  • Angular limb deformity correction

Soft tissue surgery

  • Head & neck surgeries
  • Brachycephalic syndrome in dogs
  • Laryngeal paralysis in dogs
  • Salivary mucocele in dogs
  • Parathyroid and Thyroid surgeries

Oncology

      • Large masse removal (chest wall, Sarcoma, limb amputation, brain tumor…) (tumor excision and reconstruction/skin plasty)

Abdominal surgeries

  • Digestive: Enterotomy, enterectomy, Gastropexy
  • Urinary: Nephrectomy, cystotomy, cystectomy, SUBs…
  • Splenectomy
  • Migrating foreign bodies
  • Cholecystectomy
  • Adrenalectomy
  • Perineal hernia in dogs

Thoracic surgeries

      • Lung Lobectomy
      • Vascular ring abnormality, PDA
      • Pericardectomy
      • Sternotomy
      • Chest wall resection
      • Chylothorax
      • Migrating foreign bodies

Neurology

  • (herniated disc, fractures / vertebral dislocation, intracranial tumor)

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