Pulmonary artery catheterization in heart failure patients has unexpectedly grown more common in recent years, with no clear explanation for the trend, a new study shows. About three-quarters of the ...

The placement of a Swan-Ganz catheter allows specialists to diagnose or test for major heart issues without requiring you to undergo major surgery. Usually, it’s a diagnostic tool for people in ...

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 ...

Acute pulmonary embolism is a serious, potentially life-threatening disease with a continuum of symptoms and clinical outcomes that vary based on the severity and extent of artery occlusion. Massive ...

A device known as the BASHIR ™ Endovascular Catheter (THROMBOLEX, Inc.) significantly reduces the size of blood clots lodged in the pulmonary arteries, leading to improvement in heart function in ...

In a recent trial, the routine perioperative use of pulmonary-artery (PA) catheters did not benefit high-risk surgical patients (Journal Watch Jan 17 2003). Now, in a multicenter trial, investigators ...

In normal patients, the right ventricular (RV) systolic pressure and the pulmonary artery (PA) systolic pressures are equal (15-20 mmHg), while the diastolic pressures differ, ie, the RV diastolic ...

Find out more about a less invasive option following pulmonary artery banding in children and its midterm outcomes.

Doctors should probably stop using pulmonary artery catheters because they do not benefit patients, say doctors from Australia in this week's BMJ. The pulmonary artery catheter was invented in 1968.