Aortic bypass - A vein or plastic tube is sewn in place to redirect blood flow around a diseased part of the aorta. Aortic occlusive disease - Development of atherosclerosis within the abdominal aorta ...

An aortic dissection is a tear in one of the layers of the aorta. The aorta is your body’s largest blood vessel. Your aorta is made up of three layers. When a hole or tear forms in one of these layers ...

Patients undergoing hemodialysis have a lower survival rate than those who receive a kidney transplant. Mortality among hemodialysis patients is approximately 14.5% compared with 1.5% for transplant ...

In instances in which an aortic coarctation is localized to the isthmus region, resection of the abnormal tissue with an end-to-end anastomosis is the procedure of choice. However, in cases in which ...

SEPSIS involving a vascular prosthesis, fortunately rare, is a most serious complication of arterial surgery. Although there are clinical and experimental examples of periprosthetic sepsis that have ...