Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thomas Fogarty: drawing on his boyhood passion for fly-fishing, he attached the small finger of a latex glove to a urethral ...

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 4 ...

El Camino Hospital’s Fogarty Institute for Innovation (Mountain View, Calif.). Thomas Fogarty, MD, is widely known for inventing the embolectomy catheter, or balloon catheter, which was patented in ...

The medical device accomplishments of Thomas Fogarty, MD, date back more than half a century. In the last 50 years, Fogarty has founded or cofounded more than 40 medical companies. One of the latest ...

Drawing on his love of fly-fishing, he developed a balloon catheter that removes blood clots from patients’ limbs in a minimally invasive way. It has saved millions of lives. By Jeré Longman In time, ...

Thrombectomy and embolectomy are procedures used to treat two different types of blood clots from blood vessels. A thrombectomy is surgery to remove a stationary blood clot from one of your arteries ...