An experimental new catheter could soon make such procedures quicker and easier than ever before. Ordinarily when using a central venous catheter for heart surgery, the device is inserted into a vein ...

A team led by the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) and Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid has developed and clinically applied a minimally invasive technique that, ...

Surgical pioneer inventor Fogarty, creator of the Fogarty catheter, died at 91, leaving a legacy in minimally invasive vascular surgery.

A beating heart makes for a formidable surgical arena, but a new robotic catheter could someday equip surgeons to operate in the cardiac environment with greater ease. The device, designed by a team ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas Fogarty: drawing on his boyhood passion for fly-fishing, he attached the small finger of a latex glove to a urethral ...

A retroactive study found no differences in urinary complications between patients who used a Foley catheter and patients who did not. Hip and knee replacement surgery can be performed safely without ...

A team of engineers and physicians has developed a steerable catheter that for the first time will give neurosurgeons the ability to steer the device in any direction they want while navigating the ...

Alexandria, VA – A new and increasingly popular type of minimally invasive sinus surgery exposes patients to only “very low” doses of radiation during the procedure, a level considered to be safe, ...

A team of engineers and physicians has developed a steerable catheter that will give neurosurgeons the ability to steer the device in any direction they want while navigating the brain's arteries and ...

A team of engineers and physicians has developed a steerable catheter that for the first time will give neurosurgeons the ability to steer the device in any direction they want while navigating the ...