Angiology and Vascular Surgery

The Angiology and Vascular Surgery (ACV) Department at the University Hospital of Bellvitge (HUB) is one of the oldest Departments in this speciality in the country, and seeks to offer specialist healthcare in vascular pathology to its population with the utmost efficiency and quality, providing medical knowledge to patients requiring a diagnosis, treatment or follow-up on diseases of the circulatory system, whether they be arteries, veins, or lymph vessels.

It is the centre of reference for the diagnosis and treatment of complex aneurysms of the thoracic and abdominal aorta, with both conventional and endovascular surgery, for carotid surgery and for limb revascularisation surgery. It has 9 operating rooms a week for its surgeries (8 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon), equipped to conduct conventional and endovascular procedures, and a hospitalisation unit with 28 beds, 4 of which are for intermediate care, and a state-of-the-art vascular diagnosis lab on the use of (“non-invasive”) ultrasound examinations for the study of arterial and venous vascular diseases that is equipped with 3 high-resolution ultrasound units.