There is a revolution currently under way in vascular surgery that may change the way vascular disease is treated, and its name is endovascular surgery. More and more patients who were traditionally treated by open surgical methods are today benefiting from endovascular approaches. Douglas B. Hood, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, and Darwin Eton, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, are two of a new generation of vascular surgeons who have been trained in both open and endovascular surgical techniques. They have brought this expertise to the USC Center for Vascular Disease, joining the USC School of Medicine faculty in 1996.
Endovascular procedures are like operating on the arteries from the inside.
Dr. Hood received his fellowship training in vascular surgery at Southern Illinois University in Springfield, which is probably the premier program in the country at this time for vascular surgeons to gain experience with these techniques. He also received extensive experience in traditional open surgery during this specialty training program. Fluoroscopic image of arterial anatomy is displayed on monitors at left. Pre-angioplasty aortogram demonstrating eccentric left common iliac artery lesion and tubular external iliac stenosis.