What exactly is vascular surgery?

See below: Vascular surgeons are highly specialized surgeons who treat a wide variety of disorders relating to blood vessels (arteries and veins). The can help treat poor circulation, aneurysms, varicose veins, blood clots, and certain congenital malformations of vessels.

Blood vessel surgery: Vascular surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abnormalities of the blood vessels. Some procedures are done with wires, catheters, balloons, stents and several other small devices through small puncture sites in the arteries. Other procedures are done in the operating room with incisions and suturing of grafts to correct blockages or aneurysms.

Vascular Surgery: Vascular surgery is a medical discipline that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and problems of the arterial, venous and lymphatic systems, exclusive of the heart. Interventional treatment can be both surgical and non-surgical (i.e. Catheter based and minimally invasive) and as such, make vascular surgeons uniquely qualified to provide unbiased recommendations for patients.

Arteries and veins: Peripheral vascular surgery is surgery involving major arteries and veins. The surgeries may be done open or endovascular using wires, catheters, balloons and/or stents. It can be done to unblock a vessel, bypass a blocked vessel, repair a injured or aneurysm all vessel. It can be a vessel anywhere in the body except the heart, the cardiac surgeons are responsible for those.