Vascular Procedures
Vascular problems become more common as individuals age. Medical advancements in catheter-guided technology and imaging allow treatment and diagnosis of many vascular conditions without surgery. St. Luke’s offers Sioux City’s only board-certified vascular surgeon.
Requiring only a small incision, interventional vascular procedures are often less risky, produce less pain and result in a faster, easier recovery than surgical procedures.
Interventional vascular procedures at St. Luke’s include:
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) stent grafts
- Balloon angioplasty
- Diabetic wound solutions
- Embolization
- Hemodialysis access maintenance
- Micro-atherectomy
- Renal artery angioplasty and stenting
- Stenting
- Thrombolysis
- Vena cava filter insertion