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Vascular and Vein Care Center
Today’s vascular surgeons are the only medical discipline trained to care for patients using every vascular treatment available. Some disciplines perform less invasive treatments, but cannot perform surgery. Others are skilled with one organ, but they are not specialists in the entire vascular system. Vascular surgeons do non-invasive diagnostic tests, medical treatments, minimally invasive procedures, and open surgeries when necessary. This expertise uniquely qualifies vascular surgeons to make the most accurate diagnosis and prescribe the best treatment for the best outcome.
Our vascular surgeons have expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases affecting the circulatory system, excluding the heart. This includes diseases affecting the carotid arteries, the two arteries that supply blood to the brain; the aorta, the main artery of the chest, abdomen and the peripheral arteries which supply blood to the extremities. Vascular surgeons also treat diseases affecting the veins, including chronic venous insufficiency, phlebitis, varicose veins and spider veins.
Your visit
Your visit will consist of a safe non-invasive ultrasound exam. Non-invasive means the procedure does not require the use of needles, dyes, radiation or anesthesia. Ultrasound uses sound wave frequencies too high to be heard by humans as a safe and harmless method to diagnose many medical conditions.
A qualified technologist will perform your procedure by applying a hypo-allergenic water based gel to the area to be evaluated. Then a small microphone-like device called a transducer is passed over the gel coated area to be examined, which produces an image on the screen of the ultrasound machine. Ultrasound is also used to measure the blood flow in specific blood vessels.
Upon completion of the exam, a qualified surgeon or radiologist reviews and interprets all of the images and blood flow measurements.
Treatments we perform include:
- Minimally invasive athrectomy
- Lower extremity revascularization
- Diagnostic and therapeutic aortograms and angiograms
- Dialysis access creation and management
- Vein care including varicose/spider vein treatment
- Vascular Ultrasound
Conditions we treat include:
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After your visit
Depending upon the nature of your health problem, our physicians may recommend that you receive further diagnostic testing as part of your treatment plan.
Often our patients require prescription medication. Please monitor your medications closely, and notify our nursing staff prior to running out of medication. Please allow 24 hours for prescriptions to be refilled. Our nursing staff may be reached by calling 910-215-2536.
Should you need the services of one of our vascular surgeons after regular office hours, please call FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital at 910-715-1000 and ask that our vascular surgeon on call be paged. Our Vascular and Vein Care Center has a vascular surgeon on call every day, including weekends and holidays. Narcotic pain medications cannot be refilled during the weekends or holidays because the physician does not have access to your medical record.