The National Institutes of Health designated UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School as a Vascular Disease Center in 1995. It provided the Division a grant to provide comprehensive care to patients with vascular disease and to develop related programs. The center has a dedicated staff composed of nurse clinicians, physician assistants, vascular technologists, and physicians.

The Center’s doctors are proficient in all available methods of managing vascular disease. The comprehensive diagnostic modalities offered include non-invasive and angiographic testing. The treatment modalities offered range from medical, endovascular, minimally invasive/laparoscopic, and surgical approaches to vascular problems.

Contact information: Center for Vascular Disease Suite 7200, Doctor’s Office Center 90 Bergen St., Newark, NJ 07101 Phone: 800 vascdoc or 973 972 9371 FAX: 973 972 9375

The Center for Vascular Disease offers comprehensive care for all vascular problems:

1. Carotid Stenosis: Blockage of the arteries in your neck that can lead to strokes if untreated. The Center offers both endovascular and surgical treatment of this blockage.
2. Aortic Aneurysms: Dilation of the large blood vessel in your belly. Like balloons filled with too much water, aneurysms can burst if they get too large. Ruptured aneurysms are lethal and are best treated before they rupture. The Center offers advanced endovascular and surgery to treat aneurysm disease.
3. Peripheral Arterial disease: Difficulty in walking due to blockages in the arteries of legs is the most common reason why patients see vascular doctors. Multiple non-invasive and invasive options for poor circulation are available at our Center to treat this condition with excellent results.
4. Venous disease: Blood clots inside veins and varicose veins have a myriad of symptoms and problems. Blood clots can break loose and go to your lungs, blocking blood flow and possibly causing death. Varicose veins can cause pain, swelling, itching and skin sores. The Center offers the complete array of medical, minimally invasive, and surgical treatments for this condition.
5. Dialysis Access: When your kidneys no longer function, your blood must be cleaned by an artificial kidney. To get blood to the machine, veins or plastic material must be inserted sew to an artery placing a catheter or making a fistula for dialysis is routinely accomplished by vascular doctors at our Center.
6. Endovascular surgery: Fixing blockages of arteries, veins, and bypass grafts without incisions or major surgery is the realm of endovascular surgery. Endovascular procedures include dilation of blood vessels (angioplasty), fixing aneurysms from the inside without making major incisions, and breaking up blood clots with clot dissolving medicines. Our Center offers all these methods of treatment conveniently at one place.
7. Rehabilitation: Patients with severe circulation blockages of the legs may require an amputation. Rehabilitating patients and fitting them with artificial legs is a specialty area for vascular specialists at the Center.