The Vascular and Endovascular Surgery service offers comprehensive treatment for vascular disease including balloon-angioplasty, stenting, stentgrafting and open repair of all vascular disease.

Our Endovascular Surgery Program takes a multidisciplinary approach that brings our physician specialists, nurses and technologists together in one place to deliver care. Endovascular surgeons are involved in multiple nationally acclaimed clinical trials offering the newest generation of stent-grafts.

Creighton University Medical Center’s “state-of-the-art” $2.5 million hybrid endovascular suite features floor-mounted surgical and radiologic equipment that vascular specialists can glide into place when needed so the equipment is within easy reach, with practically no motion of the surgical team wasted. In addition, in the unlikely event an endovascular procedure becomes more complex; the equipment to perform open surgery is within easy reach, without need to move the patient. Creighton University Medical Center has the only hybrid endovascular suite in Nebraska with cardiac imaging capabilities allowing cardiovascular surgeons and cardiologists to work side-by-side and offer complex hybrid operations in a single setting. The Vascular and

Endovascular Program at Creighton University Medical Center offers the following endovascular and open surgical treatments:

Treating diseases of the arteries:

• Aneurysms of the thoracic and abdominal Aorta
• Upper and Lower Extremity Arterial Stenosis (Claudication)
• Carotid Artery Disease
• Renal Artery Stenosis
• Mesenteric Ischemia
• Arterial and Pulmonary Embolization and/or Occlusion
• Peripheral vascular disease and vasculitis
• Pseudoaneurysms and aneurysms in peripheral arteries

Treating diseases of the veins:

• Varicose Veins (offering surgical and less-invasive Laser surgery)
• Superficial and Deep Venous Thrombosis
• Venous Claudication
• Post Thrombotic Syndrome and Chronic Venous Stasis
• Vena Cava Filter Placement

Treating other vascular diseases:

• Dialysis Access (for peritoneal and hemodialysis)
• Lymphedema
• Venous and arterial injury
• Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
• Arteriovenous Malformations
• Management of Acute and Chronic Vascular Wounds

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