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Carotid Artery Disease: Dr. Guiseppe Lanzino, a neurosurgeon at the Mayo Clinic, discusses the treatment options for carotid artery disease.
Diabetics are at risk for wounds on the legs that don't heal. This occurs for a number of reasons, including the diabetes itself, and vascular disease, or blockage in the legs. Dr. Karen Andrews, a physician at the Mayo Clinic, discusses a new treatment being used at the Mayo Clinic called the Circulator Boot. This device appears to improve the blood flow to the legs and help with wound healing.
Dr. Jean Starr, a vascularsurgeon at the Ohio State University, discusses the benefit of using an endograft to repair the aorta.
A DMC patient suffering from an abdominal aortic aneurysm receives an endovascular graft to alleviate the potentially deadly problem, performed by DMC cardiac specialist Dr. Ali Kafi. ~ Detroit Medical Center
The FDA isssued new information on the mortality data from the Medtronic AneuRX stent graft, the only stent graft for the treatment of aortic aneurysms to have longterm mortality data.
Laser treatment of varicose veins. Laser can now be used to treat varicose veins. Varicose veins can cause pain and bruising of the legs. Now laser treatment of these veins can eliminate them with an easy procedure, and a short recovery time.
Lymphedema: Dr. Guy Photopulos, a surgical oncologist, reviews lymphedema, which is essentially severe leg swelling. Some patients have primary lymphedema, meaning it is not from another cause. But most cases are secondary to another problem, such as trauma, surgery, cancer. In addition to pain in the legs, and difficulty with ambulation, skin problems, such as skin infections are the major complications from lymphedema.
Marfans syndrome is a connective tissue disorder. Outwardly the people that have marfans syndrome are usually very tall and lanky, with a long arm span. The main problem that people with marfans syndrome develop is that their Aorta, the main blood vessel of the body, becomes enlarged. The treatment to prevent an Aortic dissection, or a tear in that large artery is frequently surgical. Dr. Charles Bruce, Mayo Clinic.
PAD Peripheral Artery disease is usually interchangable with PVD Peripheral Vascular Disease. It is narrowing in the arteries of the body, commonly the legs from atherosclerosis. The risk factors are smoking, high cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension. The most common symptom is pain in the legs when you walk or claudication. The initial screening test is the ABI- anke brachial index. An arteriogram can also be performed. Treatment can be surgery or stents, in addition to exercise.
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