VSS is proud to announce that Dr. DesChene (DC) Brochtrup DVM, DACVR has joined the radiology department at VSS. For several years Dr. Brochtrup has been a prominent member of the Greater St. Louis veterinary community, performing mobile imaging consultation and ultrasonography to the entire region. We are proud to have her join our hospital as a full time radiologist.

Dr. Brochtrup graduated from the University of Missouri, Columbia College of Veterinary Medicine in 2004. After finishing veterinary school, DesChene practiced in the St. Louis area for five years including equine ambulatory medicine, small animal and exotic general practice, and small animal emergency medicine. She completed a three-year residency in 2012 in Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology at Kansas State University. DesChene has been a mobile veterinary radiologist in the St. Louis area since 2012. She lives on a small family farm near Festus, Mo which she shares with her husband, James, two loving dogs, a “mostly” heeler, Esso, and a “full crasy “ red heeler, Huck, three horses, cows, bees, and a menagerie fowl. She is a member of AVMA, MVMA, GSLVMA, and ACVR. ... See more

We are very excited to announce the opening of our new hospital “Veterinary Specialty Services -West” located at 7770 Winghaven Blvd, O’Fallon, MO 63368.

VSS West will be a referral-only specialty and emergency hospital operating as a satellite location to our main hospital. We will offer specialty services for surgery, oncology, internal medicine, ultrasonographic imaging as well as after hours and overnight emergency care.

We look forward to the opportunity to provide accessible specialty veterinary care for patients in St. Charles and the surrounding counties

For more information check out our webpage: http://vssstl.com/ ... See more

Dr. Wininger giving a lecture on Neurolocalization basics and The Gait Game this evening

Our thoughts and prayers are with Argo's family and partners. We thank this local hero and his comrades for their service.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/normandy-police-dog-dies-two-days-after-fall-from-parking/article_78a0da58-2400-57a9-8aef-435dfea5a531.html ... See more

Argo, a 3-year-old German shepherd, jumped over a wall and fell four stories during a hail storm.

The surgeons at VSS use cutting edge technology to prepare for and perform surgery. Here one of our surgeons has a pelvic limb 3D printed to plan for a corrective procedure.

Dr. Coletti planning an angular limb deformity corrective surgery with a true to size model.

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Our veterinarians are sincerely invested in the wellbeing of their patients. Next time you see your vet, give them a high five for caring so much!

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/22/opinions/vet-debt-opinion-stokol/index.html ... See more

Upon graduating, many veterinarians are faced with enormous amounts of educational debt, and trends indicate this burden will likely increase, Tracy Stokol says.

Drs. Sherman and Karagiannis recently published an excellent review on aspiration pneumonia. We are proud to boast the largest number of board certified emergency and critical care doctors in Missouri! ... See more

Dr. Christie Toedebusch is both a PhD candidate and neurology resident in the combined University of Missouri/VSS program. Her groundbreaking work on degenerative myelopathy (the dog version of ALS/Lou Gehrig's disease) was recently published in our most respected journal. Her findings have brought us closer than ever to being able to definitively diagnose the condition earlier in the disease process so we seek advanced treatment for affected animals. We are very proud of her work! ... See more