A world-first study led by the University of South Australia has found that cancer patients receiving chemotherapy intravenously have more than double the risk of developing a blood clot or thrombosis ...
A world-first study led by the University of South Australia has found that cancer patients receiving chemotherapy intravenously have more than double the risk of developing a blood clot or thrombosis ...
NORTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Treating blood clots, particularly those in the legs or lungs, can be a delicate process. A Temple Health doctor saw a need for a better way to do it, and he invented a ...
Scientists have developed a very small magnetic steerable catheter for minimally invasive surgery. Thanks to its variable stiffness, surgeons can perform more complex movements inside the body with a ...
Vascular catheterization is increasingly carried out in laboratory mice, but the long-term patency of catheters implanted in mice is limited owing to their small size. The authors compared mice that ...
Each year, more than 700,000 people are hospitalized with blood clots. Many times, clots lodge in the leg but travel to the coronary artery, blocking blood flow to the heart. Now, researchers are ...
Surgically placed central venous catheters (CVC) are increasingly being replaced by percutaneous CVC (PCVC) for nutritional and fluid support of neonates. (Durand, Pediatrics, 1986) We report ...