The following text summarizes information provided in the video. Pulmonary-artery catheterization aids the diagnosis and management of numerous cardiovascular illnesses, including pulmonary ...

Dear Dr. Roach: For quite some time now, I've been suffering from a persistent urinary tract infection, accompanied by an elevated PSA. This resulted in a biopsy, which was positive for early-stage ...

No restriction of oral food intake prior to nonemergent cardiac catheterization is as safe as the current traditional NPO [nothing by mouth] strategy, results from a large, single-center, randomized ...

Each year thousands of Americans undergo cardiac catheterization, a procedure where a thin plastic tube is snaked through an artery or vein into the chambers of the heart or the coronary arteries. It ...

A Swan-Ganz catheterization is a type of pulmonary artery catheterization procedure. It’s a diagnostic test used to determine whether any hemodynamic, or blood flow-related, abnormalities exist in the ...

A urostomy bag and a catheter are two different devices that can help drain and collect urine from your body. A urostomy is often permanent, whereas a catheter is not. If you have certain medical ...

Emergencies that bring people to a hospital often involve sudden, severe heart problems like a heart attack, unstable chest pain, sudden heart failure or dangerous arrhythmias. Immediate diagnosis and ...

MIDDLETOWN – Interventional cardiologists at St. Mary Medical Center increasingly are using access through the wrist when performing a cardiac catheterization. Cardiovascular catheterization is a ...

Morton Kern, MD, often engages his colleagues via email in brief, informal dialogue on clinically relevant topics in cardiology. Morton Kern, MD, of VA Long Beach Healthcare System and University of ...

Woodland Heights Medical Center has completed a $3.7 million project to renovate one of its two cardiac catheterization laboratories with new equipment, updated technology and improved design and ...