Our services
Novant Health Vascular Care – Kernersville offers comprehensive care for conditions affecting your vascular system. We diagnose and treat diseases and disorders affecting your veins, arteries and capillaries. Our vascular surgeons and vascular specialists will work to understand your concerns as well as any other health conditions such as diabetes or hypertension that could impact your vascular health.
When you choose our clinic, you will have access to the most advanced vascular diagnostics and imaging available to get an accurate diagnosis. After considering your unique concerns and overall health, our providers will develop an individual treatment plan for you. It could include medications, lifestyle changes, care for wounds or ongoing vascular disorders, or traditional or minimally invasive vascular surgery. Among the more common procedures performed by Novant Health Vascular Specialists are:
- Carotid procedures (procedures involving the carotid arteries which carry blood to the brain and head; a carotid endarterectomy removes plaque that has built up inside the carotid artery; carotid stent placement involves using a device to keep the carotid artery open)
- Visceral arterial disease procedures (procedures involving the arteries that carry blood to your intestines, spleen and liver; done to evaluate or treat a narrowing of those arteries)
- Arterial procedures (used to diagnose and treat diseases and disorders affecting the arteries; can include bypass grafts, stent placement, balloon angioplasty, evaluation of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), angiograms, thrombectomy, endarterectomy, evaluation and treatment of peripheral aneurysm and post-operative surveillance)
- Dialysis access procedures (creation of a port to allow easier access to a vein)
- Aortic aneurysm procedures (done to diagnose or treat problems of the aorta, the main artery away from the heart; can include endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (EVAR), aneurysm repair with graft, and pre-operative and post-operative surveillance)
- Venous procedures (used to evaluate or treat conditions related to the veins; can include evaluation for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or veinous diseases)
- Lymphedema (condition in which extra lymph pools and causes swelling) evaluation and treatment