Routine use of the Fogarty embolectomy catheter after cardiac catheterization through a brachial arteriotomy in 25 patients was associated with a decline in major and minor complications from 28 to ...

Nowadays, Fogarty is better known for his successful winery and for his innovations in surgical technology, the first of which, the balloon catheter, revolutionized vascular surgery in the 1960s ...

Dr. Thomas Fogarty fashioned his first important invention in 1961 out of a surgical catheter and the finger of a latex glove, tied together with a fly-fisherman’s knot. The idea was to punch ...

Dr. Tom Fogarty, the inventor of the balloon catheter that has saved millions of lives since the 1960s, talks about what worries him about starting new medical device companies today.

Medtech hub honors Fogarty catheter’s namesake with $100,000 innovation prize. expand. Dr. Thomas Fogarty, founder of the nonprofit Fogarty Innovation at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View.

Catheter. But Dr. Fogarty remains best known for the Fogarty catheter — the little balloon that can be inserted into a vein, inflated, and used to remove a blood clot or blockage without major ...

Edwards Lifesciences issued a recall of multiple lots of their Miller Balloon Atrioseptostomy Catheter and Fogarty Dilation Atrioseptostomy Catheter on March 28, which the US Food and Drug ...

Nominations open next week for the inaugural “Thomas J. Fogarty Prize” (Fogarty Prize), a prestigious new recognition for an innovator or team who has developed and brought to market a ...

The recall affects Miller Balloon Atrioseptostomy Catheters and Fogarty Dilation Atrioseptostomy Catheters model numbers 830515F and 830705F, which were distributed in the United States between ...

AHMEDABAD: A team of doctors carried out a successful experiment, where in a first for Civil Hospital, they used a fogarty catheter, generally used for cardiac surgery, to remove a stone lodged in ...