PAD Specialists

You’ll work with a specialist with years of experience and training in diagnosing and treating vascular (circulatory system) diseases. Your doctors include:

• Vascular surgeons and vascular interventionists: These experts specialize in vascular disease and can diagnose peripheral artery disease in specialized vascular labs. Vascular surgeons are trained to treat PAD with medication management and lifestyle changes. They also offer minimally invasive, catheter-based procedures such as angioplasty and stenting, as well as open surgery. By offering all treatment options, vascular surgeons can tailor your care to your individual symptoms and needs.

• Vascular medicine specialists: These doctors specialize in diagnosing vascular conditions, as well as managing less severe disease. Vascular medicine specialists offer medications, supervised exercise therapy, wound care and lifestyle changes.

• Preventive cardiologists and interventional cardiologists: Some cardiologists use minimally invasive procedures to diagnose and treat peripheral artery disease. Other cardiologists work to slow or stop the disease’s progression, as well as to diagnose it. Some people with PAD also have coronary artery disease, which our cardiologists can treat.

• Interventional radiologists: At times, some imaging specialists perform minimally invasive procedures to treat complex peripheral artery disease. Learn more about interventional radiology.