Abbott Northwestern's Vascular Center

Abbott Northwestern’s Vascular Center
The Vascular Center, located on the second floor of the Abbott Northwestern Heart Hospital, is a new division of this nationally recognized institute of excellence. The Center provides comprehensive care to individuals with vascular health conditions and diseases.

Vascular disease is a term for a wide range of diseases that affect the vascular, or blood vessel, systems of your body. This means the arteries or veins may not be working as well as they once did.

Vascular disease can affect important body organs including the:

• Heart. It can cause chest pain (angina), a heart attack or heart failure.
• Brain. It can cause strokes, transient ischemic attacks (TIAs or mini-strokes) or dementia (changes in personality, behavior and memory).
• Kidney. It can cause kidney (renal) failure. Renal failure happens when the kidneys can no longer rid the body of waste products and fluid.

Vascular disease can also affect your arms and legs. It can cause poor circulation and skin ulcers (sores).

Vascular diseases are often classified by their blood vessel type or location in the body. Choose a link for more information on:

• Common Arterial Diseases
• Common Venous Diseases
• Common Lymphatic Diseases

The Vascular Center has assembled a team of specialists whose skill and expertise offer advanced perspectives in diagnosing and treating vascular conditions. This team includes cardiologists, vascular/endovascular surgeons, vascular physician assistants and nurse practitioners.

Clinical research programs provide opportunities to advance the treatment of vascular diseases. Through the Minneapolis Heart Institute® and Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, clinical trials currently underway focus on new therapy for PAD, claudication and critical limb ischemia, angiogenesis, renal artery stenosis and endovascular therapies.

Peripheral Vascular Research

Patients with vascular disorders have several treatment options. These including lifestyle changes, risk factor management, medication therapy, and traditional vascular surgery and endovascular techniques such as angioplasty and stent placement.

Individualized treatment plans are designed to:

• improve quality of life
• preserve independence
• prevent complications
• slow vascular disease progression
• provide ongoing management.

The Vascular Center provides:

• education and support services
• prevention programs
• nutrition counseling
• diabetic care
• lymphedema therapy
• wound treatment (which includes our new hyperbaric oxygen chamber).

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery providers

• Timothy M. Sullivan, MD, Chairman 
• Peter Alden, MD
• Jason Q. Alexander, MD
• Andrew Cragg, MD
• John Graber, MD
• Adnan Z. Rizvi, MD
• Alexander Tretinyak, MD

Vascular/Interventional Cardiology provider

• Yale Wang, MD