Patients who receive pulmonary artery catheters (PACs) after cardiac surgery have significantly reduced risk for 1-year mortality.

flexible tube (catheter) to reach the affected pulmonary artery and dissolve or break up the blood clot. During this ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Northwell Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) in Ocean Breeze has become the first medical facility in the United States to treat acute pulmonary embolism (PE) using the ...

The PEERLESS trial demonstrated that large-bore mechanical thrombectomy was more effective than catheter-directed ...

Catheterization is particularly useful in the diagnosis of occult systemic to pulmonary shunts, congenital heart disease, and distal pulmonary artery stenosis.

However, clinical improvement in certain cases may be striking despite little or no change on cardiac catheterization. Although the mean pulmonary-artery pressure declined in all but 2 patients ...

Pulmonary Hypertension Right Heart Catheterization Service (Pulmonary Hypertension Program) Fellows gain procedural expertise in performing right heart catheterization, with and without vasodilator ...

In this study, a mechanical aspiration thrombectomy uses a catheter-like vacuum to remove blood clots. “Pulmonary embolism is ...

Akura Medical, a Shifamed portfolio company focused on venous thromboembolism care, announced recently that the FDA has approve ...