Troytown Greyabbey Equine Veterinary Services

The very well established and successful practices of Troytown Equine Hospital and Grey Abbey Veterinary Hospital merged in 2013, establishing Troytown GreyAbbey Equine Veterinary Services. The new business combined the expertise of both practices for the benefit of all patients and clients. They have been at the forefront of the rapid development... of new equipment and in the diagnosis and treatment of equine injury and disease over the last decades. Their aim is to provide a top quality cost-effective service individually tailored to every client and patient. Troytown was established by veterinary surgeon Stan Cosgrove in the late 1970s. The purpose built equine hospital became world-renowned for its pioneering work in colic surgery and bone repair at the time. The hospital continued its work through the 80's and 90's with the expertise of many top class equine veterinary surgeons. Hugh Dillon became a partner in 1997, followed by Warren Schofield in 2000 and Michael Sadlier 2002. Throughout these times the hospital invested significantly in equipment and expertise. It was the first hospital in Ireland with a bone scanning unit (Nuclear Scintigraphy), which was set up in 2001. In 2002 a high-speed treadmill was established for the diagnosis of wind conditions, and still is the only private practice in Europe to have such a unit. In 2009 the MRI unit was built and is still the only one on the island of Ireland. In addition to investigative and diagnostic equipment, significant advances in surgical therapeutic techniques were made. Troytown was the first hospital in the world to perform standing fracture repair in horses, and then subsequently reported the procedure in conferences and a refereed journal in 2006 - these procedures are now frequently performed in horse hospitals all over the world, with significant welfare benefit to the horses treated in this manner. The hospital also contributed to significant advances in upper airway video-endoscopic laser surgery, shockwave and biological treatments. The ...Read More