Vascular Surgery

The Vascular Surgery component of St. Louis University Health Sciences Center provides a comprehensive, yet conservative approach to a variety of patients with peripheral vascular-related diseases. Patients with diagnostic dilemmas are frequently seen in the outpatient department and if necessary can be referred to the noninvasive diagnostic vascular lab for further evaluation. A number of patients will not require operative intervention, operations being recommended only for patients who will clearly benefit from such intervention. For nearly two decades patients have had carotid endarterectomy under local anesthesia with satisfactory results being accomplished. Aortic surgery has become safer over the last few decades in part because of peri-operative evaluation and management, with particular attention to cardiovascular assessment preoperatively and careful patient selection. Newer techniques have allowed limb salvage in a great deal of challenging patients as well.

Vascular Faculty
Gary J. Peterson, M.D.
Donald Jacobs, M.D.
Brian Peterson, M.D
Catherine M. Wittgen, M.D.

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