Dr Tang Tjun Yip
Senior Vascular & General Surgeon
Vascular Surgery
About
Dr Tang is an experienced senior vascular and general surgeon previously practicing at Singapore General Hospital. He has full clinical privileges at all the Parkway Pantai Hospitals (Gleneagles, Mount Elizabeth (Orchard) Mount Elizabeth (Novena) and Parkway East Hospital), Farrer Park Hospital and Mount Alvernia Hospital.
He is accredited as a Certified Wound Specialist Physician (CWSP) by the American Board of Wound Management (ABWM) and has managed some of the most complicated diabetic foot complications involving gangrene and wound infection.
In recognition of his dedicated clinical service contributions to his patients, he has been awarded both the Silver and Long Service Awards by SingHealth and Service with a Heart Award by SGH. He was also given the Residency In SingHealth Excels (RISE) award for outstanding teaching faculty in 2019.
Awards
Accolades and Achievements
- Outstanding Faculty Award, Singhealth Residency
- Service with a Heart Award, SGH
- Long Service Award, Singhealth
- National Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist Award
- Co-founding member of the Society of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery of Singapore (SVESS)
Treatments / Specialities
Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
- Venous Diseases - varicose veins, venous leg ulcer and deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
- Investigation and management of leg swelling and lymphoedema
- Management of advanced chronic venous insufficiency (CVI)
- Peripheral artery disease management (including angioplasty and open bypass surgery) for cold feet, blue feet, leg pain
- Diabetic Foot wounds and Diabetic Limb Salvage Procedures
- Aortic Disease including aortic dissection, abdominal aortic aneurysm, aorto-iliac occlusive disease (open surgery/endovascular stenting)
- Carotid Disease & Stroke Prevention (open surgery/ endovascular stenting/redo)
- Vascular Access (Renal) Surgery and Salvage (open surgery and endovascular)
- Advanced Wound Care Management: split skin grafting, difficult to heal wounds
- Redo open complex vascular surgery
- Vascular trauma including abdomen and pelvis
- Vascular Access for oncology patients (lines – Porta Cath/Perm Cath/Hickman Line, PICC)
- Arterio-venous malformations and haemangioma treatment
- Pelvic congestion syndrome – management of female patients with chronic lower abdominal pain with dilated pelvic veins
Paper Published
Top 10 publications based on ranking
| Ranking | Publication Category | Article / Publication Title | Publication Name | Edition No. | Publication Year |
| 1 | Refereed Journals | Varicose Veins and Deep Venous Thrombosis | JAMA | 320 | 2018 |
| 2 | Refereed Journals | ClariVein® - Early Results from a Large Single Centre Series of Mechano-chemical Endovenous ablation for Varicose Veins | Phlebology | 32 | 2017 |
| 3 | Refereed Journals | Atorvastatin Therapy: Effects on Reduction of Macrophage Activity (ATHEROMA). Evaluation using USPIO-enhanced high resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Carotid Disease | J Am Coll Cardiol | 53 | 2009 |
| 4 | Refereed Journals | Iron Oxide Particles for Atheroma Imaging | Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol | 29 | 2009 |
| 5 | Refereed Journals | Estimation of Physiologic Ability And Surgical Stress (E-PASS) As A Predictor Of Immediate Outcome After Elective Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Surgery | AM J Surg | 194 | 2007 |
| 6 | Refereed Journals | VBHOM: A Data Economic Model for Predicting Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Surgery Outcome | Br J Surg | 94 | 2007 |
| 7 | Refereed Journals | The Forgotten Side: In – Vivo Assessment of Inflammatory Atheroma Burden on the Contralateral Side to Symptomatic Carotid Stenosis Using High Resolution USPIO Enhanced MR Imaging | Stroke | 37 | 2006 |
| 8 | Refereed Journals | Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm | Lancet | 26 | 2005 |
| 9 | Refereed Journals | Childhood Leukaemia Masquerading as Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis | Br Med J | 23 | 2004 |
| 10 | Refereed Journals | Pain as a Presentation of Guillain – Barré Syndrome in Children | Br Med J | 322 | 2001 |
