What is Atherosclerosis?
Atherosclerosis is a degenerative disease that affects more frequently patients 45 years or older, it is related with well known risk factors such as smoking, arterial hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes.

Atherosclerosis is an occlusive disease of the aorta and its branches due to inflammation or the development of a fatty plaque in the arterial wall. The clinical manifestations are directly related to the affected anatomic territory. When the inferior extremities are affected, it presents as pain while walking or climbing stairs, as a depigmentation of the skin, as muscular atrophy and functional incapacity.

How do we treat it?
At our clinic we have the most complete non-invasive vascular lab of western Mexico ; it provides information about the quantity and quality of blood flow. The fact that it is non invasive provides our patients with comfort and an accurate diagnose with the most advanced technology. It allows the diagnosis of circulatory deficiencies, erectile dysfunction due to vasculogenic impotence, photopletysmography, and segmentary doppler. We offer diverse surgical techniques to revascularize the affected territories. We are well known for our "saving" surgeries, in which we thoroughly explore every opportunity to save the patient's members in danger of amputation. Endovascular surgery allows the minimal invasive treatment of most pathologies without the conventional open surgery. We individualize the treatment according to every patient, and our experience allows us to combine conventional techniques with the latest technological advances.