Dear K.T.: Dexfenfluramine, aka Redux (also called "fen-phen" in combination with phentermine), was sold in the 1990s until it was removed from the market in 1997 after valvular heart damage and ...

It was probably a little insensitive when doctors sticking a pulmonary artery catheter into a plus-sized person referred to it as "harpooning." And it was never great bedside manner to remark ...

as a mean pulmonary artery pressure at rest of >20 mmHg, confirmed by right heart catheterization and a pulmonary vascular resistance of ≥3 Wood units. 9 The current guidelines from the European ...

During an ablation, a cardiac electrophysiologist snakes a catheter through a vein or artery, usually in the ... to where Wright's AFib was in the pulmonary veins. The radio frequency, though ...

Direct pulmonary artery catheterization was done and pressures were measured (ES 1000 electrostatic recorder; Gould, Cleveland, Ohio), in rats anesthetized by isofluorane (Zeneca, Mississauga ...

The investigator-led study enrolled 50 patients undergoing routine right heart catheterization (RHC), with CPS successfully measuring mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) in 40 subjects.

To investigate the associations between renal dysfunction and cardiac hemodynamics, the ESCAPE trial investigators compared therapy guided by pulmonary artery catheterization (PAC) with treatment ...

The investigator-led study enrolled 50 patients undergoing routine right heart catheterization (RHC), with CPS successfully measuring mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) in 40 subjects. CPS ...