6 Bringing health care news to your home PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE Limb-saving treatments close to home Your legs, like your heart, need a healthy blood supply to thrive. If you have poor circulation, which is called peripheral artery disease (PAD), you may need specialized treatment to restore your mobility and quality of life or heal wounds. Thanks to a collaboration between cardiologist Sabu George, MD, at Columbus Community Hospital, and David Vogel, MD, a vascular surgeon in private practice, people in our community can receive treatments for PAD. These treatments can restore blood flow, relieve pain and, in many cases, help prevent amputation. Limb-saving care PAD develops when blood vessels outside the heart narrow or become blocked by plaque and calcium. The condition is often silent at first, but may eventually cause leg pain that makes it hard to walk or sleep well. Some people develop nonhealing wounds, infections and even gangrene that can lead to amputation. In the past, Columbus-area residents with PAD often had to travel out of town for specialized procedures to restore their circulation. Now Vogel, George and other providers who diagnose and manage patients with PAD can offer minimally invasive treatments right here in CCH’s cardiac catheterization lab. Those procedures include: ● Angiograms to diagnose blockages.
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