Did you know that, according to the National Institute of Aging, if we stretched out our arteries, veins, and capillaries as adults, they would measure around 100,000 miles? This means that our blood vessels could circle the globe four times, given that the Earth's circumference is about 25,000 miles! The human vasculature is truly an intricate system that literally supplies us with blood (with veins circulating around 2,000 gallons to all body organs every day) - with life. It is no surprise that pathologies and disease processes that involve our vasculature can result in life-threatening effects, like heart attacks and strokes from coronary vascular and cerebrovascular disease, respectively. However, diseases of the vasculature can also result in effects that can alter one's quality of life, such as limb loss from critical limb ischemia due to peripheral arterial disease, varicose veins from peripheral venous insufficiency, lymphedema from lymphatic diseases, the need for hemodialysis due to chronic kidney disease secondary to renal artery stenosis, erectile dysfunction from genitourinary vascular diseases,and much more.
We are joined today by Vascular Surgeon and Assistant Professor of Surgery, Dr. Yang Yang. She received her BS in Neuroscience, Biochemistry, & Molecular Biology from Drew University and MD from Drexel University College of Medicine. Dr. Yang completed her Integrated Vascular Surgery residency at MedStar Washington Hospital Center/Georgetown University Hospital.
Livestream Air Date: April 16, 2023
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