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How To Treat Vascular Disease?
How do you know you have a vascular disease? It involves different health conditions related to your veins and arteries. You might not be able to identify the disease until at its late stages, where you may develop leg swelling, pain, non-healing wounds, among other symptoms. When left untreated, vascular disease puts your health at risk of severe complications such as heart disease or stroke. If you suspect you have vascular disease in Hudson, Advanced Heart & Vascular Associates can help you. Keep reading to find out what vascular disease entails.
What is vascular disease?
Vascular disease is a term that refers to several health conditions that affect your arteries and veins. It involves the following vascular problems.
· Venous insufficiency
· Peripheral artery disease
· Varicose veins
· Coronary artery disease
· Carotid artery disease
· Vasculitis
· Deep vein thrombosis
· Aneurysm
· Renal artery disease
Most vascular health issues occur due to injuries, blood clots, atherosclerosis, and inflammation.
Diagnosis of vascular disease
Your provider at Advanced Heart & Vascular Associates conducts a thorough diagnosis to identify the exact type of vascular disease. Other than checking out your symptoms, your provider uses advanced imaging techniques to rule out your diagnosis.
The different types of imaging tests available include, vascular ultrasound, nuclear imaging, and peripheral angiograms. These diagnostic tests provide detailed images of your heart, veins, and arteries structures and functions, that help identify the problem.
What are the treatments for vascular disease?
Your treatment for vascular disease depends on the diagnosis results and severity of your problem. Your provider first suggests conservative treatments before moving to more advanced techniques. They may recommend lifestyle modifications, management of chronic conditions, and medications.
In cases where your condition does not improve with the above treatment methods, your disease may be at an advanced level. Here, they may recommend non-invasive treatments. The treatments use different techniques; however, they insert catheters into your blood vessels in all the methods.
They include the following.
Endovenous ablation
The team at Advanced Heart & Vascular Associates uses this technique with Medtronic’s ClosureFast to treat varicose veins. He guides the catheter to the affected veins, where the ClosureFast transmits radiofrequency energy to heat and close the veins.
Angioplasty and stenting
Your provider pushes the blockage against the artery wall by inflating a balloon in the tip of a catheter. He then places a wire mesh stent to open the artery.
VenaSeal
It involves using a medical adhesive to seal the vein with valve malfunction, eliminating varicose veins.
Venous stenting
The procedure involves your provider inserting a stent to keep the vein open and stop future blood clots. It’s effective for treating deep vein thrombosis.
Atherectomy
It is a technique where the catheter has a specialized blade at the end to cut off the plaque build-up in your blood vessels.
Thrombectomy
It involves removing a blood clot using a catheter with a retriever for trapping the blood clot.
IVC filter placement
Your provider inserts a filter in your inferior vena cava. The filter prevents clots from moving to your heart, lungs, or brain.
Vascular disease comprises various health conditions, and it may take accurate diagnosis to identify the precise conditions. I hope this article helped give more insights into vascular disease. Contact Advanced Heart & Vascular Associates today to schedule your consultation.
Umar Nisar was born and raised in the busy city of Abbottabad. As a journalist, Umar Nisar has contributed to many online publications including PAK Today and the Huffing Post. In regards to academics, Umar Nisar earned a degree in business from the Abbottabad UST, Havelian. Umar Nisar follows the money and covers all aspects of emerging tech here at The Hear Up.
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