Thomas Fogarty, who has died aged 91, invented the embolectomy catheter, commonly known as the balloon catheter, a device ...
The late Dr. Thomas Fogarty, a celebrated cardiovascular surgeon and medical inventor, was a constant tinkerer while growing ...
As a teenager, he began cleaning surgical equipment at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati. There, Fogarty found a mentor — ...
On Go Red for Women Day, know your heart disease risk factors, signs of disease to prevent No. 1 cause of death for women.
Drawing on his love of fly-fishing, he developed a balloon catheter that removes blood clots from patients’ limbs in a ...
From partial heart transplantation and complex biventricular repairs to innovative procedures in the catheterization ...
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 ...