In the developing countries the common problems are blindness or amputation of a leg because of peripheral arterial damage.

Tests revealed considerable arterial damage and two years later, in 2002, she underwent a successful heart bypass operation.

There were fears that any nerve or arterial damage could have prevented him from walking again.

The same things that can cause arterial disease and heart attacks — high blood pressure, plaque build-up and arterial damage — also contribute to strokes.

Here the two surgeons devised operations to repair bulges in heart arteries and to bypass arterial damage caused by arteriosclerosis.