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In the past, physicians had to rely
on X-ray as well as touch and feel to
guide their tools while trying to treat Patient grateful for
complicated arterial disease. With the
lumivascular approach, physicians can
more accurately navigate their devices vascular services
and treat PAD lesions, thanks to the
OCT images they see from inside the
artery.
Dexter Mattingly enjoys doing his Peripheral Artery Disease. He
“We are very fortunate to offer our upholstery work at Junction City. noted that the vascular services
patients the latest technology in The Danville resident probably provided by Dr. Hamdalla helped
treating PAD,” said Dr. Hussam enjoys his work a bit more now to increase the circulation in his
Hamdalla, vascular and endovascular that he is seeing improvement with right leg, allowing the toe on his
specialist at Ephraim McDowell the symptoms he had experienced right foot to heal and enabling him
Heart & Vascular Institute. “For from Peripheral Artery Disease to walk on it.
the first time, we can now clean the (PAD).
arteries with a surgical precision The 60-year-old Mattingly realizes “My left leg was worse than my
that is unmatched, which allows for that years of smoking contributed right one, and it has done a lot
minimal complications and better to his PAD, which caused him better since Dr. Hamdalla worked
outcomes without the need for to experience painful cramping, on it,” Mattingly said.
surgery.”
numbness and discoloration in his Peripheral Artery Disease affects
legs and feet because of the between 8 and 12 million adults
HALO System build-up of plaque in the arteries in the United States and 202
that was blocking blood flow. million people globally. In severe
Esophageal cancer is the fastest Mattingly said the blood flow in cases, individuals with PAD often
growing form of cancer in the United his right leg was limited while it have to undergo invasive bypass
States, and individuals with Barrett’s was almost non-existent in his left surgeries or even amputation of
esophagus have a 40 to 130 times leg. their affected limb. Ephraim
higher incidence of developing McDowell Regional Medical
that cancer than those without the When a Lexington physician told Center has invested in advanced
condition. Now, that pre-cancerous Mattingly there was nothing he technology to perform minimally-
tissue in the lining of the esophagus could do to correct his health invasive procedures to successfully
can be destroyed with endoscopic problem, he thought he would treat PAD, thus saving patients
radiofrequency ablation therapy using just have to live with the pain of from the bypass surgeries and
the HALO System. PAD. Then a friend at work told amputation.
him about Dr. Hussam Hamdalla,
The HALO procedure utilizes an a board-certified vascular and Mattingly said he has a brother
ablation catheter to remove a very endovascular specialist at Ephraim who has had trouble with his legs
thin layer of the diseased esophagus. McDowell Heart & Vascular for the last 25 or 30 years, and he
The procedure is performed in Institute. is now seeing Dr. Hamdalla after
an outpatient setting, without the success of his own treatment.
incisions, and typically takes less “Dr. Hamdalla fixed me right
than 30 minutes to perform. The up,” said Mattingly, who has had “Dr. Hamdalla is a heck of a good
therapy allows for the regrowth of four surgical procedures to treat doctor,” Mattingly said.
normal cells in the esophagus, and
is considered to be a highly effective
treatment for eradicating Barrett’s
esophagus.
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