Peripheral Vascular Disease
Marous Center for Vascular Disease

Treatment

	Vascular surgeon Satish Muluk , M.D., evaluates a patient with peripheral vascular disease.

Peripheral vascular disease, or PVD, occurs when the arteries outside the brain and heart acquire a plaque buildup. This plaque leads to the narrowing of the peripheral arteries, causing inadequate blood flow to the body’s tissue.

While the earliest signs of PVD are subtle, the hospital’s vascular disease specialists utilize sophisticated diagnostics to successfully detect the condition, as well as equally advanced techniques to treat it.

Medication/Compression Treatment

Patients with PVD may be treated effectively with compression or medication therapy. Compression treatments include pump therapy, manual drainage through massage therapy and various wrappings.

Anticoagulation Management

Patients receiving anticoagulation therapy (bloodthinning medication) receive timely laboratory service and results in one place at one time through the anticoagulation clinic.

Balloon Angioplasty/Stents

Catheters tipped with inflatable balloons are inserted into arteries where plaques are located and inflated to open the artery and improve blood flow.

Thrombolytic Therapy/Mechanical Thrombectomy

Clot-dissolving medication can be delivered directly to blockages via a catheter, or a special catheter can be used to disrupt and remove clots.

Bypass Surgery

Vascular surgeons are skilled at treating stubborn blockages by creating a blood-vessel detour around the affected area, much like the process used to bypass blocked arteries in the heart.

Saphenous Vein Treatment

Patients requiring the removal or ablation of the saphenous vein have access to a minimally invasive procedure called radiofrequency ablation, which closes the saphenous vein by introducing radio waves through a tiny incision to shrink, then collapse, the vein.

Renal Vascular Hypertension Treatment

Stent placement in narrowed kidney arteries can eliminate or make high blood pressure easier to control, as well as preserving kidney function.