Evaluation and treatment for the arteries and veins outside the heart — peripheral artery disease, carotid disease, and vascular ultrasound.
Vascular care covers the arteries and veins outside the heart — the vessels supplying your legs, arms, neck, and abdomen. The same plaque that narrows coronary arteries affects these vessels too.
That overlap is the reason vascular disease matters beyond the affected limb. Narrowing in the legs is a strong signal that the same process is underway in the heart and the brain.
At Alliance Heart & Vascular, vascular evaluation and treatment stay with one team. Vascular ultrasound is performed on site, and when a narrowing needs treating, minimally invasive intervention is available within the practice.
Because our practice covers both cardiac and vascular disease, a leg symptom does not mean starting again with a new team. The same cardiologist can assess your legs, your heart, and the risk factors driving both.
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We work with many leading insurance plans for convenient access to care.
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Alliance Heart & Vascular works with many major health insurance plans. Insurance participation can vary by plan, network, employer, and location.
Please call (346) 614-0002 before your appointment to verify your specific insurance benefits and network participation. Our team can help answer questions about scheduling, referrals, and insurance verification.
Vascular symptoms are frequently attributed to age or arthritis and go unassessed for years. Evaluation is appropriate for:
Leg pain that comes on reliably after a certain walking distance and settles with rest is the classic pattern of arterial narrowing, and it should be assessed rather than accommodated.
Vascular disease is closely connected to several cardiovascular conditions. Learn more about:
If a limb becomes suddenly cold, pale, numb, or severely painful, this may be an arterial emergency — call 911 immediately.
Do not wait for an office appointment.
Online appointment requests should never be used for potentially life-threatening symptoms.
Arterial and venous problems produce different patterns, and telling them apart is much of what a vascular assessment does:
Some patients with significant arterial narrowing have no symptoms at all, particularly if diabetes has reduced sensation or activity has been limited for other reasons.
Vascular disease rarely occurs in isolation, so assessment considers your whole cardiovascular risk rather than the affected vessel alone.
Narrowed leg arteries causing pain on walking, and in advanced cases rest pain and poor healing. It signals atherosclerosis elsewhere in the body.
Narrowing in the neck arteries supplying the brain, which carries stroke risk and is often found before any symptom occurs.
Enlargement of the main abdominal artery, usually silent, detected by ultrasound screening in patients at risk.
Leg swelling, varicose veins, and chronic venous insufficiency, including assessment for deep vein thrombosis.
Severely reduced blood supply causing rest pain or tissue loss. This needs urgent assessment to preserve the limb.
Narrowing of the arteries supplying the kidneys or intestines, which can contribute to resistant hypertension.
The risk factors for vascular disease are the same ones that drive coronary disease, which is why the two so often appear together:
Patients should not assume leg pain on walking is simply age or arthritis. Peripheral artery disease is common, treatable, and an important warning about the heart as well as the legs.
Finding narrowing in one arterial bed substantially raises the likelihood of narrowing in another. Vascular assessment is therefore also a cardiac risk assessment.
Patients with peripheral artery disease have a markedly higher risk of coronary disease, often without chest symptoms. Read more about coronary artery disease.
Raised LDL drives plaque in the legs and neck exactly as it does in the heart, and lowering it slows disease in all of them. Read more about high cholesterol.
Sustained pressure damages the artery lining throughout the body and accelerates narrowing. Read more about high blood pressure.
Carotid narrowing is a direct stroke risk, and identifying it allows treatment before any event occurs.
Widespread arterial disease and the damage it causes to the heart muscle are a common route into heart failure. Read more about heart failure.
Not every patient needs every cardiac test. Testing should be selected based on your symptoms, examination, medical history, and cardiovascular risk. Depending on your individual situation, your cardiologist may recommend one or more of the following.
Measures the heart's electrical activity and may identify rhythm problems or other cardiac changes.
Uses ultrasound to evaluate heart function, chambers, valves, muscle, and structure.
Shows how the heart responds to physical activity and may help evaluate exercise-related symptoms.
Uses cardiac imaging during stress testing to assess blood flow to the heart muscle.
Records heart rhythm over time to help detect intermittent arrhythmias or palpitations.
Blood tests may evaluate cholesterol, blood sugar, kidney function, and other cardiovascular risk factors.
Certain patients may require additional cardiac imaging or coronary evaluation depending on their symptoms and risk profile. Your cardiologist will explain why a particular test is being recommended and how the results may influence your treatment plan.
Most vascular disease is treated medically, with walking programs and risk factor control doing more than many patients expect. Procedures are added when symptoms limit you or the limb is threatened. Treatment may include:
Our objective is to keep you walking comfortably, protect the limb, and treat the arterial disease that threatens your heart and brain at the same time.
Vascular narrowing is often found incidentally — on a scan arranged for something else, during diabetic foot screening, or through a pulse check at a routine appointment. A finding without a plan is of little use, and that is what a vascular consultation provides.
An appointment is appropriate if you have:
Talk to our office — Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Call (346) 614-0002Vascular care covers the arteries and veins outside the heart — those supplying the legs, arms, neck, and abdomen. It includes peripheral artery disease, carotid narrowing, aneurysm screening, and venous disease.
Call 911 if a limb becomes suddenly cold, pale, numb, or severely painful, as this can indicate a sudden arterial blockage. Also call 911 for any stroke symptoms.
Cramping in the calf, thigh, or buttock that comes on after a predictable walking distance and settles within minutes of stopping is called claudication, and it is the classic symptom of narrowed leg arteries.
The ankle-brachial index compares blood pressure at your ankle with that in your arm. It is quick, painless, and one of the most useful initial tests for peripheral artery disease.
Yes, and it is one of the most effective treatments available. Supervised walking programs reliably improve walking distance, often as much as a procedure, by encouraging smaller vessels to compensate.
Not usually. Most peripheral artery disease is managed with exercise, risk factor control, and medication. Angioplasty is considered when symptoms limit your life despite treatment, or when the limb is threatened.
Strongly. Peripheral artery disease substantially raises the risk of heart attack and stroke, often without any chest symptoms, so finding it changes how aggressively your cardiac risk is treated.
Carotid narrowing is often silent until it causes a stroke or mini-stroke. It may be found from a sound heard in the neck, or on ultrasound arranged because of other vascular disease.
Vascular ultrasound is painless, involves no radiation, and takes around thirty minutes. Gel is applied to the skin and a probe is used to image blood flow in the vessels.
Arterial pain typically comes on with walking and eases with rest. Venous symptoms are usually swelling and heaviness that worsen through the day and improve with elevation. Ultrasound distinguishes them reliably.
Smoking is the single strongest risk factor for peripheral artery disease, and stopping produces measurable improvement in symptoms and in the durability of any treatment.
Yes. Diabetes both accelerates vascular disease and reduces sensation in the feet, so problems are often more advanced when found. Regular foot checks are important.
Yes. Vascular ultrasound is performed on site, and catheter-based treatment is available within the practice through our interventional service.
Bring your medication list, insurance information, identification, and any previous vascular scans or ankle-brachial index results.
Yes. Alliance Heart & Vascular welcomes new patients seeking cardiovascular evaluation. Call our office or request an appointment online.
Leg pain when walking is not just part of getting older.
Whether you have leg pain on walking, a wound that will not heal, an abnormal vascular scan, or narrowing found in the neck, our team can assess your circulation and the cardiovascular risk that comes with it.
New patients are welcome.
Serving patients throughout Pearland, Greater Houston, and surrounding areas.
