Major Surgery
All About Having a Gastric Band Fitted
Gastric banding is an alternative form of surgery to having a gastric bypass in that it’s designed to help people who are very overweight and need to lose...
Gastric Bypass Surgery Explained
A gastric bypass procedure is often considered to be the ‘last resort’ if a person is morbidly obese and all other efforts to reduce their weight have fa...
Having a Hip Replacement
Many people develop arthritis in their joints as they get older. Contrary to popular belief, your joints do not wear out through overuse. People who do the l...
Having a Knee Replacement
Knee replacement surgery, like hip replacement operations, are now done very routinely. People whose knee joints have become worn by arthritis can experience...
Having a Limb Amputated
Having a limb amputated can occur as the result of a number of factors which can include: Trauma – as the result of an accident, e.g. a car crash or workpl...
Having a Liver Transplant
Having a liver transplant is one of the biggest operations that anyone can go through. It is reserved for people with liver disease that cannot be treated an...
Heart Operations
Your heart is like a constant engine pumping blood around the body continuously 24 hours a day and, as with so many vital and complex organs, things can occa...
Heart Valve Replacement
Heart valves play an important role in the function of the normal heart; they prevent blood from flowing backwards and maintain the overall flow of circulati...
How Successful Are Heart-Lung Transplants?
A heart transplant is one of the most technically demanding operations that modern medicine is able to offer. The first successful heart and lung transplant...
Repairing Torn Shoulder Ligaments
If you are unlucky enough to be involved in an accident or fall in which your shoulder ligaments are torn, this is extremely painful, and repairing the shoul...
Surgery for Gallstones
It is not unusual to have gallstones; around 15 in every 100 people in the UK has stones within their gallbladder. Not everyone knows about them, however, as...
The Intricacies of Vascular Surgery
Vascular surgery is a branch of surgery that is extremely specialised and that has only developed since the 1970s. The techniques involved are intricate beca...
What Does a Heart Transplant Involve?
A heart transplant is the procedure that could be recommended if a person’s heart has deteriorated to such an extent that they would die without the operat...
What Does A Kidney Transplant Involve?
A kidney transplant is the procedure by which a healthy kidney is transplanted from one person to another with a view to it being able to carry out the funct...
What Does a Liver Transplant Involve?
Having any sort of major organ transplant involves long and complicated surgery. Kidney transplants are probably the most common but heart, lung and liver tr...