Bethesda Memorial Hospital Opens State-of-the-art Endovascular Center

A long-awaited dream to open a state-of-the-art endovascular center is now a reality. The Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Endovascular Center recently opened its doors at Bethesda Memorial Hospital.

This new, state-of-the-art endovascular center will allow surgeons to care for patients with vascular problems, using minimally invasive procedures. Thanks to these new minimally invasive techniques, patients will be able to receive a superior level of care, with less discomfort and shorter recovery times.

General and Vascular Surgeon, Dr. Thomas A. Abbruzzese, performing a procedure in the all-new Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Endovascular Center at Bethesda Memorial Hospital.

With a goal to shift from conventional open operations to catheter-based surgical interventions, the Driskill Endovascular Center will specialize in treating patients with thoracic aneurysms and stenoses, or blockages, of the carotid arteries.

The Driskill Endovascular Center’s team will be led by vascular surgeons George Mueller, M.D., Miguel A. Lopez-Viego, M.D., Jesus Jimenez, M.D., and Thomas A. Abbruzzese, M.D., who has relocated to South Florida from Massachusetts General Hospital, where he served as the Clinical and Research Fellow in the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery for the last two years.