Cardiac catheterization, a procedure used to diagnose heart conditions, is typically performed through the femoral artery of the groin. But, increasingly, cardiologists are instead using the radial ...

The placement of a Swan-Ganz catheter allows specialists to diagnose or test for major heart issues without requiring you to undergo major surgery. Usually, it’s a diagnostic tool for people in ...

HEPATIC-artery catheterization by way of the brachial artery for the treatment of malignant lesions in the liver has recently been revived and expanded. 1 We have had the opportunity to utilize this ...

George Bybee dreaded the prospect of enduring another heart procedure, his 10th cardiac catheterization since a heart attack in 1992. His doctor cut a small opening in the big artery in the groin and ...

One-year findings from the Distal versus Proximal Radial Artery Access for Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention (DIPRA) study were presented today as late-breaking clinical research at the Society ...

SHORTLY after Abeatici and Campi, 1 in 1951, introduced direct percutaneous splenic puncture as a method of performing splenoportal venography in dogs this became the standard roentgenographic method ...

Background: The optimal population rate of cardiac catheterization is unknown. One potential way to determine it would be to examine whether there is a population rate beyond which the yield of ...

Device manufacturer Teleflex, and its subsidiary Arrow International, are recalling certain radial artery catheterization kits following reports of malfunction in both the guidewire handle and chamber ...

A female newborn was born at 30-week gestation to a 19-year-old mother via C-section for placental abruption and fetal bradycardia, at an outside institution. APGAR scores were 3 and 7 at 1 and 5 min, ...

Six months after the procedure, the patient showed no signs of coronary artery obstruction, meaning VECTOR's first outing in ...