For example, a capillary is microscopically thin to allow gases to exchange, the arteries are tough and flexible to cope with high pressure blood flow and the veins contain valves to prevent the ...

The way that I explain it to my patients is that if we were to look in the back of the eye, there is a structure called ... There's arteries, and there's veins. And so your body can generate ...

These findings suggest that examining the blood vessels in the eye could help identify people at risk for heart disease earlier. Since the eye provides a unique “window” into the body’s vascular ...

In order to get blood to the heart muscle of a by-pass patient more efficiently, surgeons first need to borrow veins or arteries from non-critical areas of the body and then stitch them into the ...

For example, a capillary is microscopically thin to allow gases to exchange, the arteries are tough and flexible to cope with high pressure blood flow and the veins contain valves to prevent the ...