More Catheter Tests & Procedures News

• Opening Clogged Arteries Helps Women After Heart Attack

  July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Contradicting some earlier reports, a new study finds that women ...

• Drug Cuts Muscle Damage After Heart Attack

  Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- A drug designed to lessen muscle damage from a heart ...

• First 90 Days After Stopping Plavix Most Dangerous

  Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- New research finds that the first three months after heart ...

• Study Finds Both Coated Stents Perform the Same

  Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) -- In a large study comparing the real-life effectiveness of two ...

• Stents Slightly Better Than Bypass for Blocked Left Coronary Artery

  Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Implanting a stent in a clogged left main coronary artery ...

• New Computerized Scans Effective for Spotting Clogged Arteries

  Nov. 6 (HealthDay News) -- The new generation of cardiac scanners is almost as reliable ...

• New Anti-Clotting Drug Shows Promise in Heart Patients

  Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- A new anti-clotting drug might one day challenge Plavix, the ...

• Drug-Coated Stents No Riskier in Long Run Than Bare Metal Ones

  Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- In the largest study of its kind to date, Harvard ...

• Drug-Coated Stents Go Head to Head

  Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A survey of trials of drug-coated stents finds that those ...

• Severe Asthma May Improve With Bronchial Catheter

  May 31 (iVillage Total Health) -- Researchers have developed an experimental device to help people ...

• Catheters, Other Devices Raise Infection Risk

  September 29 (HealthDay News) -- All types of catheters and other devices that allow access ...

• External catheter may prevent pelvic pain

  Jul 24 (HealthCentersOnline) - Using an external urinary catheter rather than a catheter inserted into ...

• Atrial fibrillation treated by magnetically guided catheter

  Apr 07 (HealthCentersOnline) - New technology employing a robotically-guided catheter may offer a significant improvement ...

• New device may increase risk in catheter-based procedures

  Sep 12 (HeartCenterOnline) - When performing a catheter- based procedure to reopen a clogged artery, physicians ...