Our vascular surgeons have been recognized for their clinical excellence by selection for inclusion in the Castle Connolly Guides, Top Doctors: New York Metro Area, representing the top 10% of physicians in the New York Metropolitan area, as well as by inclusion in the Consumers' Research Council of America Guide to America's Top Surgeons.

Our Vascular Surgery Service provides specialized care for a wide variety of circulatory disorders. Our surgeons perform reconstructive procedures for occlusive and aneurysmal diseases. They have special expertise in:

• Thoraco-abdominal surgery
• Surgery for stroke prevention (carotid endarterectomy and carotid stenting)
• Treatment of hypertension
• Aneurysm repair, including endovascular thoracic aortic aneurysm repair, the new "internal bypass" stent procedure that we perform with our colleagues in cardiothoracic surgery
• Lower extremity vascular reconstruction
• Surgery for diabetic foot ulcers

Demonstrating our commitment to providing the latest advances in patient care, our program in minimally invasive endovascular surgery offers a scope of diagnostic and treatment options which are unique in Suffolk County. At our Vein Center in East Setauket, our vascular specialists provide treatment for:

• Acute deep vein thrombosis
• Chronic venous thrombosis
• Pelvic venous incompetence
• Varicose and spider veins
• Venous ulcerations

Our specialists use the latest surgical and non-surgical techniques to treat varicose veins and spider veins of the leg, including new minimally invasive "endovenous" techniques that let patients get back to their normal activities in usually just a couple of days. No general anesthesia or hospitalization is required.

For the evaluation and treatment of chronic leg and foot ulcers, they provide comprehensive wound care management at our multidisciplinary Wound Care Center, also in East Setauket.

Non-Invasive Vascular Laboratory

To provide the best possible patient care, our Vascular Surgery Service uses the Non-Invasive Vascular Laboratory of Stony Brook University Medical Center. The Non-Invasive Vascular Laboratory houses a wide variety of state-of-the-art equipment, including Duplex scanners and transcranial Doppler units, used not only as aids in the diagnosis of circulatory disorders, but also in the follow-up of a large number of outpatients.

Our Non-Invasive Vascular Laboratory is complemented by an excellent special procedures division of the radiology department, which likewise has the latest in angiography equipment and CT scanners, at University Medical Center.

The special procedures division provides service in all the techniques of interventional radiology, including balloon dilatation (angioplasty), invasive pressure monitoring, and therapeutic embolization.

About Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)

Watch this WABC-TV "Long Island Viewpoint" segment (7:30 min; following ad) in which Dr. Apostolos K. Tassiopoulos, chief of vascular surgery, talks about what AAA is, and describes its complications, risk factors, detection, and treatment: