Keeping Your Arteries & Veins Healthy
Vascular surgery is a surgical specialty that treats conditions that affect your vascular system. Your vascular system includes your arteries and veins.
Vascular surgeons use medical treatments, minimally-invasive catheter procedures, and surgery to make sure your arteries and veins stay healthy.
The vascular surgery specialists at University of Utah Health offer the best care specifically tailored to treat each patient. We are the number one referral center for treating a broad range of vascular diseases. We see patients from Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, and Montana. Our work through outreach clinics provides patients with easier access to our services.
Our vascular surgeons have access to leading-edge operating room suites. Doctors use the hybrid OR suite for patients who need highly specialized procedures which require both operative and angio procedures.
Vascular surgery is committed to treating our patients with the compassion, integrity, and respect they deserve.
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Conditions
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)
- Aortic disease
- Aortic dissections
- Peripheral arterial aneurysms
- Carotid artery stenosis/disease
- Mesenteric ischemia
- Pelvic congestion syndrome
- Peripheral artery disease (PAD)
- Stroke
- Subclavian vein thrombosis (Paget Schroetter Syndrome)
- Thoracic & thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Venous insufficiency & varicose veins
- Visceral artery aneurysms
Treatments & Procedures
- Aortic aneurysm repair (stent grafting)
- Balloon angioplasty & stenting for PAD
- Carotid endarterectomy/stenting
- Creation of AV fistulas & grafts for end-stage kidney disease
- Endovascular surgery (angioplasty & stenting)
- Endovenous laser therapy (EVLT)
- Lower extremity arterial bypass
- Surgical bypass for arterial occlusive disease
- Thoracic & abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
- Vein ligation & stripping
Hear From Our Patients
Aortic Dissection Repair Gives Utah Woman Second Chance at Life
When Allie Cochran began experiencing severe chest and abdominal pain, her husband took her to a nearby hospital in Orem. Doctors discovered Cochran had suffered an acute aortic dissection, likely related to a thoracic aortic aneurysm. Cochran was quickly transferred to U of U Hospital for emergency surgery.
Rare Aneurysm Cured With Cutting Edge Surgery
Marcia Waggoner's primary care doctor had never seen anything like it. The 76-year-old from St. George tried showing the CT scan to her son, a radiology tech, who passed it along to the team of physicians he works with.
Quick Diagnosis of Aortic Dissection Gives Wyoming Man a New Lease on Life
Just hours earlier, Matthew York had been a happy groom vowing to honor his new wife Evelyn. By 5 a.m. of the following morning, he was reaching out to her as she slept by his side, pleading that she save his life.