Cardiac ablation—also called catheter ablation—is a procedure doctors use to treat irregular heartbeats or arrhythmias. During cardiac ablation, doctors insert a thin tube called a catheter into your ...

Cardiac catheterization and angiograms are medical procedures that allow doctors to examine the inside of the heart and arteries. However, there are some differences between the two. Cardiac ...

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 ...

Cardiac catheterization is a procedure that provides information on how well the heart is working. To perform this procedure, a healthcare professional inserts flexible tubing into the heart through a ...

Doctors perform a number of different outpatient heart procedures, including angioplasty, stenting, pacemaker implantation, and others. If you have a heart condition, your doctor might recommend an ...

The new catheter technology, developed in the U.K., enables targeted delivery of radio frequency energy to specific points in heart tissue. Kristopher Sturgis Researchers at King's College in London ...

Once the end of the catheter is inside the heart, a small surgical tool on its tip is used to perform the actual cardiac surgery. One problem lies in the fact that if the catheter is narrow enough to ...

A photoacoustic approach to guiding cardiac catheters involves short laser pulses delivered using an optical fiber attached to a catheter, while a special signal transducer picks up the ensuing ...

Advancements in medical technology have led to the development of innovative medical devices that are doing things once far out of reach for improved patient care and outcomes. Image Credit: Amphenol ...

CellProthera acquires catheter technology to enhance delivery of its ProtheraCytes therapy, advancing Phase III clinical ...