The Department of Surgery is internationally recognised for its expertise in arterial and venous disease and transplantation. Our clinical service embraces all aspects of vascular surgery including endovascular techniques for stenting aortic aneurysms, endovascular femoropopliteal bypass and subintimal angioplasty.
Specialised clinics exist for venous ulceration and separately for arterial disease.
In transplantation, islet cell transplants are a particular departmental interest. The research of the department is in carotid disease, endovascular treatments of arterial disease of all kinds, femorodistal and popliteal bypass and venous disease. As well as the extensive clinical research programme there is a laboratory based activity in the molecular biology of intimal hyperplasia, angiogenesis and atheromatous plaque. In the area of transplantation the isolation and implantation of human islets and the invesigation of reperfusion in kidneys are being investigated. We have an internationally recognised Vascular Studies Unit which is manned by technicians and provides a service to investigate all aspects of arterial and venous disease.