The MaineHealth Limb Salvage program provides patients with limb-threatening peripheral arterial disease (PAD) access to comprehensive revascularization treatments. Vascular disease and associated nerve damage can lead to non-healing wounds, infections, ischemia (where tissue is starved of oxygen) and tissue death. Such conditions, both complex and urgent, require coordinated care by an interdisciplinary team with a wide range of experience, including experts in orthopedics and vascular surgeries.
Conditions:
Services:
- Amputations
- Angioplasty (including CO2, POBA, cutting balloon, drug eluting balloons, lithotripsy)
- Atherectomy (minimally invasive removal of atherosclerosis plaque)
- Endarterectomy (surgical removal of atherosclerosis plaque)
- Endovascular surgery
- Hybrid lower extremity re-vascularization (open and endovascular)
- Lower extremity bypass surgery
- Pedal and radial access procedures
- Stenting (including drug coated stents)
- Thrombolysis
- Vascular surgery
Residency Program
Our integrated vascular surgery residency program is designed to provide graduated, incremental training in both vascular and core general surgery throughout the course of the program.
Next Steps for Patients
While some patients are candidates for self-referral to our limb salvage program, we recommend that you ask your primary care physician for help with the process.
