Before you have surgery, the doctor will determine what type of material is best suited to bypass the blood vessel. Whenever possible, the surgeon will choose to use an existing piece of vein taken ...

A beloved New Jersey mall Santa who nearly lost his leg to diabetes ... When the surgery proceeded in June, Dr. Russo performed a three-hour revascularization procedure, using a vein from Fierro ...

In Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, we make a small “pouch” out of the stomach ... (resulting in an infection called peritonitis), or a blood clot in the legs (deep vein thrombosis, or DVT) or lung ...

By-pass surgery is one of the commonest types of operation performed, with surgeons taking veins from patients' legs to graft round diseased and blocked arteries in the heart. Unfortunately ...

enabling physicians to bypass lesions in the superficial femoral artery, by using stents routed through the femoral vein via a transmural passage, to restore blood flow to the leg. This approach ...

Thompson is removing a healthy vein from Raymond's leg so it will be ready for Raymond's quadruple bypass operation ... patient's chest during the by-pass surgery itself. When a vein is required ...

Endologix LLC announced it has reached a milestone of 1,000 patients who have been treated with percutaneous transmural ...

Endologix LLC, a privately held, global medical device company dedicated to providing disruptive therapies for the interventional treatment of vascular disease, today announced that 1,000 patients ...