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The medical team then rushed the marrow to a hospital room where Marissa's 19-year-old sister Anissa lay waiting. Through a Hickman catheter inserted in the chest, the doctor began feeding the baby's marrow into Anissa's veins. The marrow needed only to be dripped into the...
In the U.S. alone, surgeons annually perform 330,000 coronary bypass operations. An additional 190,000 cardiac patients every year undergo angioplasty, which usually involves the use of a balloon-tipped catheter to widen their arterial passages. Both operations provide immediate, dramatic relief for the cardiac patient. But there are...
When people have a heart attack today, they are likely to be given powerful drugs to dissolve the clots that block the flow of blood to the cardiac muscle. But the drugs are generally used only to buy time until invasive procedures can be performed. These include angiography, the injection...
"I would walk around the hospital with a beeper, and when they'd get a patient who spoke only Spanish, they'd beep me, and I'd go and translate," Gordon says. "I learned how to say things like bowel movement and catheter in Spanish."
With the new procedure, doctors insert a catheter into an artery in the patient's arm or leg. The catheter is pushed through the circulatory system to the heart. When it reaches the diseased valve, a balloon on the tip of the catheter is inflated. Once it's successfully opened...