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Vascular Disorders
The Vascular Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center offers a state-of-the-art program for managing the broad spectrum of vascular disease- defined as disorders of arteries, veins, and lymphatics, exclusive of the heart and brain. A number of common vascular problems treated at the Vascular Center are listed below. Links to more information about these and other vascular disorders include:
Vascular Web
Southern Association for Vascular Surgery
American Heart Association
WebMD
Examples of common vascular disorders include:
- Amputation
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Dissection
- Aortoiliac Disease
- Arm Artery Disease
- Arterial diseases
- Arterial embolus
- Arterial thrombosis
- Arteritis
- Atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries)
- Carotid Disease
- Stenosis or occlusion from atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries)
- Dissection, spontaneous or traumatic
- Aneurysm
- Carotid body tumor
- Claudication
- Cold intolerance
- Embolism
- Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
- Diabetic Problems
- Gangrene
- Hyperlipidemia
- Leg Artery Disease
- Lymphedema
- Mesenteric Ischemia
- Peripheral Aneurysms
- Phlebitis
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Renal artery dissection
- Renal artery stenosis
- Superficial vein thrombosis
- Thoracic Aneurysm
- Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
- Ulcers of toes, feet ankles
- Varicose Veins
- Vasospasm
- Venous Insufficiency
- Venous stasis ulcers
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