Vein & Vascular Surgery

Vascular and vein treatment

Peripheral artery procedures

Surgery or a procedure is sometimes needed to treat peripheral artery disease (PAD), a common condition in which narrowed arteries reduce blood flow to the arms or legs. It’s usually a sign of a buildup of fatty deposits in the arteries, a condition called atherosclerosis, that can be corrected with:

Vascular angioplasty

If a narrowed artery is causing PAD leg pain, this treatment may help. A tiny balloon on a tube, called a catheter, is placed in the artery. The balloon inflates, which makes the artery wider. This improves blood flow. A small wire mesh tube, called a stent, may be placed in the artery to keep the artery open.

Leg artery bypass surgery

This surgery creates a new path for blood to flow around a blocked or partially blocked artery in the leg. A surgeon takes a healthy blood vessel from another part of the body. The vessel is connected below the blocked artery. The new pathway improves blood flow to the muscle.

Vein insufficiency surgery

While your arteries carry oxygen-rich blood away from your heart, your veins bring oxygen-poor blood back to your heart. It’s a huge task considering the veins must fight gravity to move blood back up to the heart. But when there is a vein blockage or vein valve malfunction, blood flow is reduced significantly causing venous insufficiency. Blood pools in the legs, increasing pressure in your leg veins and causing pain, swelling, skin discoloration, ulcers, or clots.

Leg vein ablation

This is a minimally invasive procedure used to treat chronic venous insufficiency and varicose veins, utilizing techniques like laser or radiofrequency energy to seal off affected veins. Ablation techniques include laser energy to heat and seal the affected vein via a catheter inserted in the vein or radiofrequency waves that generate heat and collapse the diseased vein.

Leg vein bypass surgery

This surgery creates a new path for blood to flow around a blocked or partially blocked vein in the leg. A surgeon takes a healthy blood vessel from another part of the body. The vessel is connected below the blocked vein. The new pathway improves blood flow back to the heart.