Vascular Surgeons Round Rock Texas | Board-Certified Doctors
Vascular Surgeons in Round Rock Texas
Vascular Surgeons are physicians who are experts in the diagnosis and management of conditions affecting the cardiovascular system. Vascular surgeons are also referred to as Vascular Specialists. Vascular surgeons manage diseases of the circulatory system. This includes diagnosis of diseases of the arteries, veins, lymphatics, and capillaries. Vascular surgeons are not only “surgeons,” but they are also medical doctors and minimally-invasive interventional specialists. They are able to manage vascular diseases with medications, catheter procedures, stents, angioplasty, atherectomy, open surgery, bypass surgery, as well as many other medical therapies. Since vascular surgeons can utilize all of the possible “tools in the toolbox,” they are the most well-rounded and experienced physicians capable of competently managing vascular diseases. Therefore, if you have a vascular condition that involves the arteries, veins, or lymphatics then the specialist that you should be seeing is a vascular surgeon.
Board Certified Vascular Surgeons Round Rock Texas
Vascular Surgeons Round Rock Texas. Our vascular surgeons are Board Certified in Vascular Surgery by the American Board of Surgery. This means that they have completed a rigorous training process that has included both a surgery residency and vascular surgery fellowship at a University Medical Center that has been approved by the American Board of Medical Specialties. This is very important, as many physicians that are allowed to perform vascular and vein procedures are not Board Certified Vascular Surgeons. Our vascular surgeons have the FACS credential (Fellows of the American College of Surgeons). We are also certified by the Society for Vascular Surgeons.
Conditions Treated by Vascular Surgeons Round Rock Texas
Our vascular surgeons treat a wide-spectrum of artery and vein diseases. Some of the conditions that our Round Rock Vascular Surgeons treat include the following: peripheral artery disease, peripheral venous disease, carotid artery stenosis, aneurysms, blood clots, venous reflux disease, end stage renal disease requiring dialysis, renal artery stenosis, pelvic venous congestion, thoracic outlet syndrome, varicose veins, deep venous thrombosis, claudication, venous stasis ulcers, mesenteric ischemia, May Thurner Syndrome, Post Thrombotic Syndrome, lymphedema, and ischemic wounds or ulcers of the legs, ankles, and feet. We also do vascular workup for symptoms of pain and swelling involving the legs, ankles, and feet. Our vascular surgeons in Round Rock Texas are experts in management of these vascular conditions
Types of Vascular Surgery Performed by Vascular Surgeons Round Rock Texas
Traditional Open Vascular Surgery
There are still many conditions that may still require open vascular surgery. This includes carotid stenosis, which is still most often treated with carotid endarterectomy. Another example is certain types of aneurysms of the aorta, spleen, kidneys, legs, or mensenteric circulation. Also, when severe long-segment peripheral artery disease of the legs is presents, leg bypass surgery is often needed. Dialysis access procedures of the arms, such as AV grafts and AV fistulas require open surgery. Many types of vascular trauma surgery also require often surgery.
Endovascular Surgery
Endovascular surgery is also one expertise of the vascular surgeon. Endovascular surgery involves a minimally-invasive method of treating blood vessel disease with the use of catheters inserted through small puncture holes placed in blood vessels. The process used to intervene on blood vessels through small needle punctures in the skin is called catheterization. During this process various pre-shaped flexible catheters are utilized. A catheter is a small hollow and flexible rubber or plastic tube that is the size of a piece of spaghetti. A catheter is guided through the blood vessel with ultrasound and x-ray image guidance called fluoroscopy. A special x-ray dye in injected into the blood vessels to create a road-map image of the circulation that helps guide the surgeon on catheter navigation in order to treat the vascular disease.
Endovascular surgery has transformed the field of vascular surgery in a dramatic way over the years. There is endovascular procedure approaches for most types of vascular disease processes. With the use of endovascular techniques many pathologies can be addressed, including arterial plaque, aneurysms, artery blood clots, vein blood clots, arterial dissections, blood vessel trauma, blood vessel malformations, arterial-venous fistulas, etc.
Our vascular surgeons in Round Rock Texas have residency and fellowship training in endovascular surgery and have been performing endovascular procedures for over 10 years.
Vascular Technologies Available
This is a topic that would take book volumes to describe. But there are some commonly utilized vascular technologies that are performed by our vascular surgeons in Round Rock Texas that deserve a brief mention. These include the following: stents, angioplasty balloons, stent-grafts, percutanous atherectomy devices, percutaneous thrombolysis devices / Angiojet, coil embolization, plug embolization, heparin-bonded grafts, covered stents, fenestrated grafts, bovine grafts, and bovine patches. Vascular surgeons most commonly do interventional treatments with angioplasty balloons, stents, and bypass surgery. But all the mentioned procedures above are rather common. All of them are performed by our Vascular Surgeons in Round Rock Texas.
For years we have been providing vascular surgery and endovascular surgery services to the Round Rock Texas community. This includes procedures in the operating rooms, catheterization suite, and in our Vascular Clinics. We have active staff privileges at St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center, Seton Medical Center Williamson County, and Oakwood Surgery Center in Round Rock Texas. To arrange a consultation with our board-certified vascular surgeons in Round Rock Texas, call our office at (512) 339-9102.
