If you experience pain, achiness, fatigue, burning or discomfort in the muscles of your feet, calves or thighs, you could be experiencing Peripheral Artery Disease. Untreated, this can progress to gangrene, limb loss or worse yet stroke or heart attack. The Adventist Heart Institute has assembled a team of experts for treatment of this disease, including new minimally invasive techniques that will you get back to a normal and active life.
Our cardiologists and surgeons are specialists in treatment Peripheral Vascular Disease. If medications and lifestyle changes aren’t effective, our specialists may use atherectomy, a very effective procedure that utilizes a catheter with a sharp blade on the end to remove plaque from a blood vessel.
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Ocelot technology uses a specially designed catheter that allows physicians to see from inside an artery during the actual procedure, using optical coherence tomography, or OCT. In the past, operators have had to rely solely on x-ray as well as touch and/or feel to guide catheters through complicated blockages. With Ocelot our physicians can see more accurately and navigate in real time while performing the procedure. More visibility. Improved accuracy. It's a technology available at few locations nationwide.
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