Advocate. Keeping You Informed. Indian River Medical Center Foundation. Volume 5 - Number 1 - Winter 2008. Page 3.

" Focus On...Dr. Pranay Ramdev, Vascular Surgeon.

"While serving his fellowship at Beth Israel, Dr Ramdev assisted in the hospital's first aortic endovascular procedure, a procedure new to the United States at the time. The most highly publicized endovascular procedure provided by Dr. Ramdev is a minimally invasive procedure to repair abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). In the past, patients undergoing "Triple A" surgery would require sizable incisions and hospital stays of a week or longer. Under the endovascular procedure, the patient receives only two small groin incisions, can often avoid general anesthesia, and remains in the hospital generally less than 24 hours."

Hometown News. Friday, February 16th 2007. By Warren Kagarise.

"Ailing arteries mended by new IRMC procedure.

Two years ago, Mr. Heaton, 87, was diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Inside his belly the walls of his body's main blood vessel were slowly stretching, threatening rupture and most likely death. On January 24th, a vascular surgeon at Indian River Medical Center threaded a catheter into Mr. Heaton's femoral artery from an incision in his groin. X-ray images guided the surgeon up to the trouble spot in the aorta....Within a few hours of the surgery, Mr. Heaton was awake and feeling fine. He went home the following afternoon. Pranay Ramdev, the surgeon, is the first to perform the delicate endovascular procedure in Indian River County."

Channel. Indian River Medical Center. Vol 19 - No. 25 - December 2006.

"Dr. Pranay T. Ramdev Brings Innovative Endovascular Surgery to Area.

Thanks to the recent arrival of Dr. Pranay T. Ramdev in Vero Beach, some patients with an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) are now able to forego the traditional "Triple A" surgery and opt for what is called an endovascular abdominal aorta aneurysm repair istead. Dr. Ramdev is able to treat the disease with catheters, balloons and endografts and avoid large incisions and prolonged hospital stays....Ramdev also treat[s] peripheral aretirial disease (PAD). PAD includes blockages within leg arteries that can result in something as mild as difficulty walking and calf pain to the level of severe blockages."