So they sent a catheter up into my heart and just sucked it out.
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But obtaining such images usually requires threading a catheter through an artery in the groin.
In one scene, Young's mother struggles to insert a catheter while they are in a car.
The company has pioneered a method that can install new heart valves via a catheter through the groin.
This means that a sufferer has to have a hole drilled in his skull, and a catheter fitted.
An electronic probe loaded with the necessary drug in the right quantity could be introduced through a catheter into the body.
Its device uses a high-speed jet at the tip of a catheter to wash out a clot and then vacuum it out.
Except for a few uncomfortable days with a catheter in place and two to three weeks of limited incontinence, all is well.
Now a patient who has one, if they get to the hospital on time, can have the blockage removed with a catheter.
The Edwards method snakes a prosthetic valve into place using a catheter.
Patients are injected with the drug, and then have a catheter carrying an optical fibre threaded into the vessel to be treated.
Newer versions of the valve use a catheter that is two millimeters thinner and replace the steel in the device with cobalt chromium.
Using general anesthesia, the surgeon threaded a catheter up her nose, expanded a tiny balloon and cleared a permanent space for her sinuses to drain.
It's a catheter with a rotor blade at its tip that chops away at the gunk on the artery walls and then sucks it up.
Thermocore Medical in England is testing a catheter containing tiny temperature sensors, betting that inflamed plaque is slightly hotter than the rest of the artery.
The Edwards device is implanted into the heart using a catheter.
Conventional anti-atherosclerosis therapy, which is called angioplasty, also employs a catheter.
Dr. Moon would be there to perform an angiogram, where a catheter is threaded towards the heart and an image of a possible blockage is taken.
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Nissen's studies use a technique called intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), which measures the volume of plaque in a coronary artery using an ultrasound probe inserted through a catheter.
About an hour after that, Osofsky-McGonigle underwent a procedure in which doctors threaded a catheter through an artery in her groin all the way up into her brain.
In the procedure, a catheter system, guided by ultrasound was inserted into an artery in the leg then threaded up through the aorta and into the coronary arteries.
But he also argued that traditional angiograms, in which a catheter is used to inject contrast dye before an X-ray is taken, actually kill one out of 1, 000 patients.
In PCI, a catheter is passed usually from the femoral artery in the groin up to the heart and into the small coronary arteries that pass through the heart muscle.
About four months after each patient's original operation, when their hearts had stabilised, Dr Bolli used a catheter to deliver 1m of the newly bred stem cells to their damaged heart muscle.
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That changed just over a year ago, when Edwards Lifesciences Corp. won approval to sell an artificial aortic valve flexible and small enough to fit into a catheter and wedged inside the bad one.
Bolli has refined his procedure to make it less invasive -- stem cells can now be taken through a catheter -- and none of the patients in cardiac stem cell trials have suffered serious adverse effects.
An experimental pacemaker in testing that can be installed through a catheter without surgery could help open up new markets for heart gear in India, where there are few doctors trained to implant current pacemaker devices.
Stents are used in angioplasty, a procedure in which a balloon is inserted into a heart artery via a catheter and used to reopen it, alleviating chest pain, allowing patients to walk and treating heart attacks.
If, however, they've hitched a ride on a catheter that's implanted into your body, then the bugs can grow a biofilm -- in short, a biological beachhead that will constantly reinfect you and is impenetrable to antibiotics.
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The modern device era exploded in 1977 with the invention of angioplasty, when German cardiologist Andreas Gruentzig made a tiny slice near the hip of a patient and inserted a catheter tipped with a balloon into an artery.
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