Overview

Washington University vascular surgeons offer open and endovascular techniques to treat patients with vascular diseases. Conditions that are treated include:

• Abdominal aortic aneurysms
• Thoracic aneurysms
• Renal occlusive and aneurysmal disease
• Carotid artery disease
• Brachiocephalic and upper extremity occlusive arterial disease
• Aortoiliac and lower extremity occlusive arterial disease
• Venous and lymphatic disease
  

Vascular surgeon Patrick Geraghty, M.D., performs an endovascular procedure.

The vascular surgery service at Washington University was started in 1983 – the first year that certification in vascular surgery became available. Under the leadership of Gregorio A. Sicard, M.D., F.A.C.S., the service has grown from performing fewer than 300 procedures annually to more than 5,500 procedures per year.

Today, the section is recognized as one of the major vascular surgical centers in the United States.

In addition to providing a high level of patient care, Washington University vascular surgeons are extensively involved in the training of two vascular surgery fellows per year and of general surgery residents who rotate through the vascular service. Vascular surgery fellows spend one of their two years participating in the section’s research projects, which include many investigations of the physiology and management of abdominal aortic aneurysms and intimal hyperplasia.

Please browse our web site to learn more about patient care, teaching and research programs in the Section of Vascular Surgery.