The procedure is carried out in one day as an outpatient, and patients do not need an overnight stay with us.
We need some blood tests and a urine test for anesthetic safety. Once we are happy with these, we administer a short general anesthetic. Typically this lasts 30 to 90 minutes.
We need to have x-rays of the affected areas and also a chest x-ray. Where recent x-rays are available from your own Vet, we will not need to repeat these.
We then harvest approximately 40 grams of fat from a site behind the shoulder or just inside the tummy and your pet is woken from the anesthetic. There will be a few stitches that need to come out in 10 days.
A small blood sample is taken and prepared into a platelet rich plasma (PRP) solution. The fat is processed to isolate, concentrate and activate stem cells in our lab, and this takes around 4 hours. The stem cells are mixed with the PRP in preparation for injection. Once we have the stem cells, we administer a light sedative to allow us to inject the cells directly into the affected areas. A portion of the cells are given intravenously.
Well then book you follow up consultations at 30, 60 and 90 days.
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