The NHS said PVD affected about one in five men and one in eight women in the UK.
Consultant vascular surgeon Dev Mittapalli said the device could help prevent the loss of limbs.
He said: “Quite often, to be frank, it is because of the unhealthy lifestyle – it could be smoking, poor management of the blood pressure, poor management of diabetes, high cholesterol levels, lack of exercise.
“They all come under the category where you get damage to the arteries and where the calcium deposition causes the narrowing of the arteries.”
Mr Mittapalli said staff were “encouraged by the early results”.
He said: “It’s quite amazing actually because the patients, when we see them they’re really struggling and when they had the procedure, when you see them they’re delighted that their symptoms are much better.”
