All blood vessels are specifically structured to perform their function. For example, a capillary is microscopically thin to allow gases to exchange, the arteries are tough and flexible to cope ...

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 ...

through those vessels. 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 the retina. That's sort of like the wallpaper of the ...

All blood vessels are specifically structured to perform their function. For example, a capillary is microscopically thin to allow gases to exchange, the arteries are tough and flexible to cope ...