Artery Diseases

Most common vessel diseases are arterial blockage diseases (vessel stiffness), abnormal dilatation (aneurism) of arterial system. The essential standard for diagnosis and designation of the treatment to be applied is angiography. Untreated vessel diseases lead to various results based on the region of the vessel (inability to walk, gangrene, paralysis, failure in the function of the supplied organ, death). The vessel which is blocked or does not function is repaired by removing the blocking plaque, performing bypass on the diseased area with a vein from the patient or an artificial vessel or replacing the complete blood vessel. After the surgery, the patient is generally kept in the intensive care for 1 day and is hospitalized for 1 week if artificial vessel was used.