Vascular Surgery
At Inova Vascular, we are committed to providing you with the best possible management and treatment of your vascular disorder. This may include treatments that involve a "traditional" or open surgery.
Our team is dedicated to bringing compassionate, comprehensive clinical care to our patients. If you are in need of a surgical procedure, our expert doctors and support staff will be with you every step of the way.
Common surgical vascular procedures
- Open aortic surgery
- Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR)
- Carotid endarterectomy
- Carotid stenting
- Angioplasty with/out stenting
- Vascular bypass
- Endarterectomy
- Atherectomy
- Balloon embolectomy
- Thrombectomy
- Vascular bypass grafting
- Open aortic surgery
- Thoracic endovascular aneurysm repair (TEVAR)
Patient story: abdominal aortic aneurysm
Ardis Morton
Feeling dizzy and weak during an advent service at her church, Ardis Morton, 90, sat down to rest. The next thing she knew, paramedics were rushing her to the Inova Fairfax Hospital Emergency Room. Ardis had suffered a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm – one of the most deadly cardiovascular events with a 95 percent fatality rate. The complexity of her condition, coupled with her age, made surgery extremely risky. Vascular surgeon Dipankar Mukherjee, MD, was willing to attempt an emergency repair.
"When Dr. Mukherjee came out to speak to us after the procedure, he had just two words: 'She's alive,'" recalls daughter Beverly. "The family was overjoyed and so thankful. We called it our Christmas miracle."
Ardis spent four days in the hospital before returning to her daughter’s home in Lovettsville to begin the slow process of recovery. Initially, she was carried up and down stairs in a wheelchair. But when she went to Dr. Mukherjee's office for a post-op appointment a month later, she insisted on walking up and down the stairs herself.
The grandmother of 13, great-grandmother of 18 and great-great-grandmother of two feels uniquely blessed. "So many things fell into place for me," she says. "Even Dr. Mukherjee calls it a miracle. We thanked each other for accomplishing such a wonderful result."
Major vascular conditions
A vascular disease is a condition that affects the arteries and/or veins. Most often, vascular disease affects blood flow, either by blocking or weakening blood vessels, or by damaging the valves that are found in veins. Organs and other body structures may be damaged by vascular disease as a result of decreased or completely blocked blood flow.
Coronary artery disease (which can cause heart attack), cerebrovascular disease (including stroke), and peripheral arterial disease (poor circulation) are some of the leading causes of illness and death in the United States.
Conditions we may treat with traditional surgery
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)
- Carotid artery disease
- Dialysis access
- Mesenteric ischemia
- Peripheral aneurysm
- PAD
- Raynaud’s disease
- Thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) and aortic dissection
- Thoracic outlet syndrome