Smaller arteries branch off of the aorta and go up to your head. ... ‌Your blood loses oxygen as it travels through your arteries. Veins carry the blood back to your heart to absorb more oxygen.

Heart surgery patients fare better when surgeons bypass their blockages using arteries grafted from an arm rather than veins grafted from a leg, U of T research shows. The Radial Artery Patency Study, ...

Your circulatory system contains three blood vessel types: arteries, veins, and capillaries. Arteries carry blood from the heart, unlike veins, which carry blood to the heart. According to the ...

Conjoined twins joined at the head have been successfully separated after an epic 10-hour operation. ... Next the rest of the veins and arteries were separated along with a part of the shared brain.

On Jan. 30, Nasir Alderman, then about 14 months old, underwent surgery at Wolfson Children’s Hospital to remove a “vascular anomaly” from the back of his head. The anomaly weighed two ...