Carris Health Vascular Surgery
Expertise close to home
When you’re faced with new terminology and treatment options, it can be overwhelming. Our specialists will help explain what needs to be done.
A wide range of issues can affect both the arteries and veins, which transport oxygen and nutrients. Vascular surgeons specialize in treatments of every kind of vascular problem, except those of the heart (treated by cardiovascular surgeons) and the brain (treated by neurosurgeons). It is important to see a vascular surgeon, even when surgery is not needed. For example, a common condition such as atherosclerosis may show up in the legs, but also be present in the arteries supplying the heart and brain.
Vascular surgeons will talk to you about how lifestyle changes and medication can be the first step in regaining your health. When invasive intervention in needed, vascular surgeons are trained in all types of interventions, including endovascular (minimally invasive) and surgical.
Cerebrovascular
- Carotid endarterectomy
- Endovascular and open revascularization of subclavian stenosis
Aortoiliac occlusive disease
- Diagnostic arteriography
- Angioplasty and stenting
- Aortofemoral bypass
- Femoral-femoral bypass
- Axillary femoral bypass
Mesenteric and renal arterial occlusive disease
- Diagnostic arteriography
- Angioplasty and stenting
- Arterial pharmacolysis
- Embolectomy/thrombectomy
- Mesenteric bypass
Peripheral arterial disease
- Diagnostic arteriography
- Angioplasty and stenting
- Arterial pharmacolysis
- Embolectomy/thrombectomy
- Endarterectomy
- Femoral to popliteal bypass
- Femoral to tibial/pedal bypass
- Upper extremity bypass
Aneurysmal disease
- Open and endovascular repair abdominal aortic and iliac artery aneurysm
- Endovascular treatment of endoleaks occurring after endovascular AAA repair
- Open and endovascular repair popliteal aneurysm
- Repair of uncommon aneurysms (other upper and lower extremity, carotid, mesenteric)
- Management of pseudoaneurysms
Venous disease
- Radiofrequency ablation
- Vein stripping and ligation
- Phlebectomy
- Inferior vena cava filter placement
- Thrombectomy
- Pharmacolysis
- Diagnostic venography
- Venoplasty and stenting
Dialysis access
- Arteriovenous fistulas and grafts
- Revision of access (for poor function, thrombosis, infection, aneurysm, ischemia)
- Endovascular diagnosis and treatment of fistula stenosis
- Endovascular treatment of central venous stenosis
- Placement of non-tunneled and tunneled hemodialysis catheters
Central access
- Placement of tunneled central catheter with subcutaneous port (i.e., for chemotherapy, long-term IV access)
Vascular Trauma
- Treatment of traumatic vascular injuries involving the neck, abdomen, and extremities
- Extremity fasciotomy
- Diagnostic and therapeutic arteriography for abdominal, pelvic, and extremity trauma, including splenic embolization
- Treatment of iatrogenic arterial and venous injuries involving the neck, abdomen, and extremities
Carris Health clinics offering Vascular Surgery services:
- Carris Health – Willmar Clinic:
- Carris Health – Redwood Falls Clinic: