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Welcome to the Division
of Vascular Surgery at the University of North Carolina - Chapel
Hill, School of Medicine. Through its specialization and development
of new programs, the division has grown into one of the major referral
centers for vascular surgery in the Carolinas. Vascular Surgery
is dedicated to the care of patients with disorders of the circulatory
system. In the United States, these disorders fall into two broad
general disease processes known as atherosclerosis and thrombophlebitis,
which affect the arterial and venous systems respectively.
In the past decade there have been numerous diagnostic and surgical
technological advances such as:endovascular aneurysm repair, untrasound
enhancement, angioplasty, stenting devices, endoluminal bypasses,
and improved imaging techniques.
The vascular patient is one of the most difficult patients to care
for because the disease process involves multiple systems of the
body. As such, the care of the vascular patient requires the combined
efforts of the surgeon, radiologist and internist, and by coordinating
the services of these physicians is able to provide comprehensive
total peripheral vascular care. The Division of Vascular Surgery
is dedicated to providing the most up-to-date techniques in treating
the vascular patient and is forging ahead in various areas of research
to solve problems that only a few years ago were deemed unsolvable.
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UNC Vascular
Surgery
3024 Burnett Womack Building
CB 7212
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7212
1-866-UNCVASC
(1-866-862-8272)
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