Treating Vascular Disease
Sacred Heart Hospital offers the region's leading vascular program to treat circulatory diseases and conditions. Our Regional Heart and Vascular Institute offers the services of highly trained vascular surgeons, interventional radiologists and cardiologists who specialize in less invasive approaches to treating blocked or weakened blood vessels. Our services includes the latest diagnostic techniques and state-of-the-art therapies to treat blockages in arteries that supply the heart, brain and legs.
Our hospital was awarded a Specialty Excellence Award for vascular surgery in 2006, putting it in the top 10 percent of hospitals nationwide.
Our interventional radiologists have pioneered new techniques for entering the arteries via thin flexible tubes or catheters and then repairing abdominal aortic aneurysms using a technique known as stent grafts. This technique has saved many patients from major surgery and provided them with a less painful, quicker recovery.
In addition, our interventional radiologists are using the latest techniques to implant stents or insert tiny plaque-shaving devices into arteries -- to restore blood flow to the arteries of the legs. Tiny stents are also being placed inside the carotid arteries to open blockages and thus prevent stroke. The carotid stent procedure is a less invasive procedure than open surgery, and appears effective in preventing stroke in patients with narrowed carotid arteries.
Our specialists also offer minimally invasive procedures to treat:
Uterine fibroids
Spinal fractures caused by osteoporosis (vertebroplasty)
Varicose veins
For more information about our vascular surgeons, interventional radiologists or procedures they perform, please call 416-1600.
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