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A graft is a surgical procedure to move tissue from one site to another without its own blood supply. Learn about the different types of grafts, such as skin, bone, vascular, and fat grafts, and their indications and complications.
Learn about the experimental surgical operation of grafting one organism's head onto another, and the medical and ethical issues involved. Find out the history of head transplantation experiments on animals and humans, and the current status of the field.
Skin grafting is the transplantation of skin to treat wounds, burns, infections or skin cancers. Learn about the different types of skin grafts, their sources, purposes and how they heal.
Vascular bypass is a surgical procedure to redirect blood flow around a diseased artery using a graft. Learn about the different types of vascular bypass, such as cardiac, leg, hemodialysis and cerebral bypass, and their medical uses and contraindications.
TPLO, or tibial-plateau-leveling osteotomy, is a procedure that stabilizes the stifle joint after the ligament that prevents backward movement of the femur ruptures. Learn about the causes, symptoms, recovery and alternatives of this surgery for dogs.
Tibial Tuberosity Advancement (TTA) is a surgical procedure to repair deficient cranial cruciate ligaments in dogs. It involves cutting and advancing the tibial tuberosity with implants to change the angle of the patellar ligament and stabilize the stifle joint.
Learn about the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of cleft lip and cleft palate, a type of birth defect that affects the upper lip and palate. See images, statistics, and prognosis of this condition that can result in feeding, speech, hearing, and dental problems.
EVH stands for endovascular vessel harvesting, a minimally invasive technique to obtain a blood vessel for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Learn about the benefits, methods, and controversies of EVH compared to other methods of vessel harvesting.