The late Dr. Thomas Fogarty, a celebrated cardiovascular surgeon and medical inventor, was a constant tinkerer while growing ...

Drawing on his love of fly-fishing, he developed a balloon catheter that removes blood clots from patients’ limbs in a ...

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 ...

Patients who have experienced a stroke as a result of blockages of the arteries in the brain have better outcomes with the use of balloon-guided catheter surgery as compared to having a conventional ...

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 ...