Angioplasty
Biopsy
Dialysis Catheter Placement
Percutaneous Vertebroplasty
Peripheral Vascular Disease
Treatment for Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT)
Uterine Fibroid Embolization

Approximately one million Americans develop symptoms of peripheral vascular disease (PVD) each year. PVD results from the build-up of atherosclerotic plaque in the arteries of the lower extremities causing obstruction of blood flow to the legs and feet. Patients with PVD experience exercise induced pain the in calf, thigh or buttocks. More advanced cases have foot pain at rest, non-healing foot ulcers or wounds, or gangrene.

Many patients can be treated with minimally invasive techniques such as balloon angioplasty (PTA). Angioplasty is the blowing up of a balloon catheter in the diseased artery at the site of blockage. The arterial blockage is stretched open, which makes a better channel for blood flow. Often a vascular stent is placed at the blockage site to mechanically open the diseased artery.