Peripheral Vascular Disease

For patients with peripheral vascular disease, the simple act of walking can become exceedingly painful because of blockages in the arteries of the legs. Now patient at Bakersfield Heart Hospital have a new non-surgical alternative for treatment of these blockages, and FDA-approved device called the SilverHawk Plaque Excision System. The device uses a tiny rotating blade no larger that a grain of rice to shave away sections of plaque that have built up on the artery wall. As the blade is advanced inside the artery, it collects the shaved plaque and removes it from the patient.

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