Vascular surgery
Vascular surgery is a subspecialty of general surgery in which diseases of the vascular system, or arteries and veins, are managed, largely via surgical intervention, and was originally founded by Dr. Clyde Otis Hagood Jr.  The vascular surgeon is trained in the diagnosis and management of diseases affecting all parts of the vascular system except that of the heart and brain. Cardiothoracic surgeons manage surgical disease of the heart and its vessels.  Neurosurgeons manage surgical disease of the vessels in the brain (eg intracranial aneurysms).

# Breadth of discipline
- Arterial diseases ( especially in Diabetics )
Aneurysms
Ischemia
Limb ischemia
Acute limb ischemia
Thrombectomies
Embolectomies
Anti-coagulation and Thrombolysis
Chronic limb ischemia
see intermittent claudication and peripheral artery occlusive disease
Diabetic foot ulcers
Mesenteric ischemia
Renal ischemia
Extracranial cerebrovascular disease
Carotid Endarterectomy and other carotid surgery
Surgery of the vertebral system
- Aneurysms
- Ischemia
Limb ischemia
Acute limb ischemia
Thrombectomies
Embolectomies
Anti-coagulation and Thrombolysis
Chronic limb ischemia
see intermittent claudication and peripheral artery occlusive disease
Diabetic foot ulcers
Mesenteric ischemia
Renal ischemia
- Limb ischemia
Acute limb ischemia
Thrombectomies
Embolectomies
Anti-coagulation and Thrombolysis
Chronic limb ischemia
see intermittent claudication and peripheral artery occlusive disease
Diabetic foot ulcers
- Acute limb ischemia
Thrombectomies
Embolectomies
Anti-coagulation and Thrombolysis
- Thrombectomies
- Embolectomies
- Anti-coagulation and Thrombolysis
- Chronic limb ischemia
see intermittent claudication and peripheral artery occlusive disease
Diabetic foot ulcers
- see intermittent claudication and peripheral artery occlusive disease
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Mesenteric ischemia
- Renal ischemia
- Extracranial cerebrovascular disease
Carotid Endarterectomy and other carotid surgery
Surgery of the vertebral system
- Carotid Endarterectomy and other carotid surgery
- Surgery of the vertebral system
- Venous disease
Deep Vein Thrombosis
Thrombophelebitis
Varicose Veins and Varicosities
Venous malformations
- Deep Vein Thrombosis
- Thrombophelebitis
- Varicose Veins and Varicosities
- Venous malformations
- Lymphatic disease
Lymphoedema
- Lymphoedema
- Vascular Medicine
Medical disorders with a significant vascular components, for example:
Raynaud's syndrome
Scleroderma
- Medical disorders with a significant vascular components, for example:
Raynaud's syndrome
Scleroderma
- Raynaud's syndrome
- Scleroderma

# Training
Previously considered a field within general surgery, it is now considered a specialty in its own right.  As a result, training has been, or is being re-structured from previously having to complete full general surgery training followed by a period of further vascular surgery training, to being trained in vascular surgery alone from start to finish.
Programs of training are slightly different depending on the region of the world one is in.

# Surgical Procedures
By no means exhaustive, but below are a number of common procedures and indications for vascular surgeons.