For more than half a century, the Department of Vascular Surgery and Angiology of the Centre for Postgraduate Medical Education in Warsaw was one of the leading vascular units in education and therapy of vascular diseases in Poland. A number of pioneering operations, such as abdominal aortic aneurysms or treatment of renovascular diseases were performed here for the first time in Poland.

In Noninvasive Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory prof. J. Wesołowski and ing. A. Wycech implemented first ultrasound diagnostic methods in Poland. Many of famous polish surgeons as prof. Dryjski, prof. Rykowski, prof. Noszczyk introduced new methods of treatment of vascular diseases.