An expert eye for the eyes of all your animals

The University Veterinary Clinic of Liège offers a cross-disciplinary ophthalmology service, which means that it is able to treat all animal species: dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, NAC, ruminants, etc.

Thanks to its facilities and its state-of-the-art diagnostic and surgical equipment, the ophthalmology team is able to offer a complete service to all your animals.

To examine your pet's eyes, the veterinarians will use a slit lamp, direct and indirect ophthalmoscopes, a tonometer (rebound or applanation), but also other more advanced diagnostic techniques such as gonioscopy, ultrasound and electroretinography.

Services offered

The ophthalmology department deals with all eye diseases of your animals. Some diseases need to be treated surgically. Your patient will therefore be taken care of by the anaesthesia department. The ophthalmologists will perform the surgery either with the help of magnifying glasses or an operating microscope. Some of these surgeries also require more specific equipment, such as a laser or a phacoemulsification device for glaucoma or cataract surgery respectively.

The ophthalmological examination can also be used to detect hereditary defects in dogs or cats, with a view to breeding your pet. It can also be carried out on horses during a purchase visit.

In addition to their clinical work, ophthalmologists are responsible for training students, future European specialists and veterinary surgeons (through conferences or the publication of scientific articles). For this reason, the clinic has recently invested in an operating microscope equipped with screens and a second lens, and the consultation equipment is equipped with cameras.

The final aspect of our ophthalmology department's activities is, of course, clinical research. This allows us to improve the knowledge and skills of ophthalmologists, and thus to increase the quality and level of care we can provide to our animals.

General organisation of the service and making appointments

Consultations are by appointment only from Monday to Friday:

Before the consultation, your pet will be taken care of by a student and/or an intern and will be examined by a resident and/or a specialist. At the end of this examination, a diagnosis, the different therapeutic options and their prognosis will be given to you. Except in exceptional cases (e.g. emergencies), your pet will not be operated on the same day as the consultation if surgical treatment is required.

You will be offered an appointment in the following days or weeks and you will be given an estimate of the cost of the treatment.

 

For pets and NACs:

To make an appointment, please contact the secretariat on 04/ 366 42 00. A consultation lasts about 30 minutes but it may be longer if additional examinations are required (for example if your pet's pupils need to be dilated).

 

For horses:

To make an appointment, please contact the secretariat on 04/ 366 41 03. A consultation lasts about 60 minutes but it may take longer if additional examinations are required (for example if an ultrasound is needed).

 

Emergencies:

An on-call service has been set up to examine and treat urgent cases, evenings and weekends. Before coming to the University Veterinary Clinic, we invite you to contact the on-call service (small animals/horses) who will assess, with you, by telephone, the seriousness of the signs you have observed and will tell you when to come.

On arrival, your pet will be taken care of by a final year student and a resident who will assess your pet in order to start treatment to stabilise the eye. A specialist or resident will then assess your pet.

It is best not to come in without an appointment or without contacting one of the clinic staff, even in an emergency. This is to ensure that we are available to see you upon your arrival.

Do you have any questions? We may already have the answer here.

Commonly performed procedures 

  • Cataract surgery, by phacoemulsification with implantation of artificial lenses
  • Lens extraction surgery for anterior dislocation
  • Corneal surgery: corneal transplants, corneal-conjunctival transplants, synthetic or frozen corneal transplants, laceration/perforation sutures, keratectomies, keratotomies, thermokeratoplasties...
  • Techniques for burying the accessory lacrimal or nictitating gland in dislocation and other third eyelid surgeries
  • Placement of Cyclosporine A implants for the treatment of equine recurrent uveitis (suprachoroidal implants) or immune-mediated keratitis (subconjunctival implants)
  • Eyelid surgery: removal of tumours (cryosurgery or surgery), repair of lacerations, correction of positional abnormalities (entropion, ectropion,...), local chemotherapy of certain tumours
  • Surgery of abnormally implanted eyelashes
  • Periocular and palpebral reconstructive skin surgery (in case of trauma, burns or removal of large tumours)
  • Laser glaucoma surgery (transcleral cyclophotocoagulation)
  • Enucleation with or without intraorbital prosthesis or intrascleral prosthesis
  • Transposition of Stenon's canal for the treatment of tear insufficiency
  • Surgery of the lacrimal excretory apparatus
  • Collection of intrarocular fluids (aqueous and vitreous humor) for diagnostic purposes

Our team

Specialists in veterinary ophthalmology (Diploma ECVO)

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Sauvage Aurelie 5 cm

Dr Sébastien MONCLIN Dr Aurélie SAUVAGE

 

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