How long is recovery from vascular surgery in the legs?

Few weeks: It depend what surgery was done how involve the surgery was.

Depends: Many patients are treated with minimally invasive techquies that have a very short recovery - hours to 2 days. Other patients require open surgery that may take weeks to recover from. A typical bypass patient has hospital stay 3 -5 days. Your surgeon will remove staples or stitches from the incisions, usually about 7 to 14 days.

Depends, of course: Depends on what procedure was done. Many vascular procedures are now done with wires and catheters and allow treatment as an outpatient. I recommend a gradual return to regular activity within 1-2 days. Open bypass surgery usually requires 2-3 days in the hospital to regain adequate activity to go home, then again a slow return to regular activity in 2-4 weeks.

Depends on surgery: It really depends on type of surgery and the technique used. Endo techniques typically have a much shorter recovery time. Open techniques recovery dependent on how many incisions and what procedure. It also depends on what type of shape the patient is to begin with. Older, frail patients may have a much longer recovery time.