Patients with coronary artery disease are very likely to have some form of peripheral vascular disease. Pain in the leg may not be due simply to the aging process. Peripheral vascular disease is essentially angina of the legs and requires a specialist’s care.
At USA Health Heart Center, our cardiovascular specialists address heart problems as well as issues affecting the vascular system. We perform exams, assessments, vascular studies and more, including Doppler ultrasounds to measure the amount of blood flow through your arteries and veins, and ankle-brachial index (ABI) and toe-brachial index (TBI) tests used to detect vascular disease. If a patient’s condition can be fixed interventionally, the procedure is done in our cath lab. If not, we work with a surgeon to arrange peripheral bypass surgery.