Vascular Disease Care
When disease affects the vascular system, it can disrupt blood flow throughout the body. Get the specialized care you need for vascular disease close to home at Reid Health.
Compassionate vascular disease care, close to home
You don’t have to travel far from home to get specialized care for vascular diseases. Our vascular specialists serve patients throughout East Central Indiana and West Central Ohio with a full suite of screenings, diagnostic testing, and vascular surgeries for many common and complex conditions.
A whole-body approach to vascular care
The vascular system, also called the circulatory system, plays an important role in keeping your body functioning. This elaborate system of arteries and veins carries blood to and from your heart so your lungs, kidneys, and other vital organs work well.
Vascular disease is connected to many other health conditions.
At Reid Health Heart & Vascular Center, our vascular specialists are committed to helping you get the advanced care you need. That includes working with other specialists, such as endocrinologists, wound care specialists, and kidney disease specialists, to manage health conditions that can cause, or be caused by, vascular disease. Our goal is to provide truly personalized, comprehensive vascular services.
Vascular screenings
When you develop a condition that affects the vascular system, you don’t always experience symptoms. Many vascular diseases don’t cause symptoms until the disease worsens.
Because of that, it’s important to know if you’re at risk for vascular disease and take steps to protect yourself. A vascular screening at Reid can help you stay informed. Our screenings can identify if you’re at risk for three types of vascular disease:
- Stroke
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Peripheral artery disease
Results are sent to your primary care provider, and you can work together to come up with a plan to address your risk head-on.
Vascular diseases we treat
Whether you’ve already been diagnosed with vascular disease or still need a diagnosis, you can find the care you need at our Heart & Vascular Center. Our specialists offer comprehensive care for all types of vascular disease. We treat:
- Aneurysm
- Blood clots
- Carotid artery disease
- Coronary artery disease
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Heart attack
- Pulmonary embolism
- Peripheral artery disease affecting the arms or legs
- Spider veins
- Stroke
- Varicose veins
- Venous disease
Treatments we offer
The longer you have vascular disease, the more damage occurs. Our goal is to get your vascular system back to normal as quickly as possible. We offer a range of treatment options to provide you with a personalized solution for your health needs:
- Aneurysm repair: Open and minimally invasive options are available to repair a weakened blood vessel section.
- Angioplasty and stenting: These procedures can open a blocked artery and keep it open.
- Atherectomy or endarterectomy: These procedures remove plaque in an artery.
- Clot removal: Also known as thrombectomy, this procedure removes dangerous clots blocking arteries or veins.
- Lifestyle changes: Changes to diet or activity might help improve vascular disease.
- Medications: Your provider might recommend prescription or over-the-counter medications to improve symptoms.
- Transcarotid artery revascularization (TCAR): This procedure can treat blocked arteries in the neck.
- Thrombolytic therapy: Medications are used to break up blood clots, including those causing stroke.
- Vascular surgery: Both open procedures and minimally invasive procedures could treat vascular conditions.
- Vena cava filter placement: This procedure keeps blood clots from moving to the lungs.
Treating the veins
Vascular disease includes a group of conditions affecting the body’s veins, known as venous disease. Vein specialists at the Reid Health Vascular Surgery have advanced training to diagnose and treat:
- Leg ulcers
- Spider veins
- Varicose veins
- Other venous diseases
Through Reid Health Vascular Surgery, you can access the most advanced options to treat these conditions, including nonsurgical therapies and minimally invasive procedures. This includes endovenous ablation, endovenous laser therapy, sclerotherapy, and procedures to treat varicose veins, getting you back to looking and feeling your best.