Vascular Surgeons Austin Texas

Vascular Surgeons Austin Texas

Austin Vascular Specialists is a medical and surgical clinic located in centeral texas that specializes in the managment of circulatory diseases of the arteries and veins throughout the body.  We perform vascular surgery to improve blood flow in the arteries and veins.  Our vascular surgeons are board-certified in open vascular surgery and endovascular surgery, offerring all of the latest modern therapies for improving circulation conditions.

Definition of Vascular Surgeons

Vascular surgery is a field of medicine that involves evaluation and treatment of diseases of the circulation. Vascular surgery encompasses the diagnosis and comprehensive management of disorders of the arterial, venous, and lymphatic system throughout the body. Vascular Surgeons are experts of the circulatory system of the body. Vascular Surgeons are able to manage vascular diseases with medication, catheter-based procedures, and open vascular surgery. They are physicians that have been trained in all the treatment options available for vascular diseases of the arteries and veins. This includes less invasive endovascular procedures and majory open vascular operations.

Conditions That Vascular Surgeons Treat

Vascular surgeons treat a variety of circulatory diseases. The most common vascular conditions that we treat include carotid artery disease, artery aneurysms, peripheral artery disease, perpipheral venous disease, blood clots, artery dissections, renal artery disease, End-Stage Renal Disease, Fibromuscular Dyplasia, Arteritis, Varicose Veins, May-Thurner Sydrome, Venous Ulcers, Artery Ulcers, Circulation Wounds, Gangrene, Lymphedema, Circulatory Pain, Ovarian Vein Reflux, and Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. Vascular surgeons also treat more minor circulatory conditions such as spider veins, phebitis, and vascular dermatitis.

Common Procedures That Vascular Surgeons Perform

Vascular Surgeons perform blood vessel procedure that result in improvements in blood flow of the body.   The types of procedure are classified as either endovascular surgery or open vascular surgery.  Endovascular surgery are less invasive vascular procedures that are most frequently performed while the patient is awake or minimally sedated.

Endovascular surgery includes catheter procedures such as angiograms, balloon angioplasty, artery stents, vein stents, catheter thrombolysis (i.e. dissolving blood clots that are located within blood vessels),  endovenous laser procedures, endovenous radiofrequency procedures, vascular embolization of arteries and veins, stent-graft repair of aneurysms, embolization of aneurysms, sclerotherapy, ultrasound-guided injection procedures, percutaneous atherectomy,

Open vascular surgery includes artery bypass, aneurysm resection / repair, endarterectomy (removal of plaque from blood vessels), arterial-venous fistula surgery, vascular malformation procedures, dialysis procedures, removal of blood clots,  repair of artery dissetions, patch angioplasty of narrowed blood vessels, removal of varicose veins with phlebectomy and vein stripping,  and open thoracic outlet surgery.