Dr . John Hirshfeld, director of the cardiac catheter laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia, said coronary brachytherapy addresses the need of a small fraction of patients.
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After graduating from Stanford with an MBA in marketing, Kam became a co-founder of the Novoste Corp ., a company working to make a diagnostic cardiac catheter, and spent three years there.
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The industry figures that each year more than 7.5 million lives are saved or improved by medical implants, as well as by 1 million cardiac catheter procedures and 1.5 million cataract operations.
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The technology takes " precise electrical measurements at the tip of a cardiac catheter, providing cardiac specialists with both numbers and a visual display so they know when good tip-to-tissue contact is made ".
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Offering advanced cardiac catheter laboratory and coronary care unit, has adult, adolescent and child mental health facilities, and is home to the North Coast Cancer Institute, which provides advanced oncological and haematological support to patients.
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The industry figures that each year more than 7 . 5 million lives are saved or improved by medical implants, as well as by 1 million cardiac catheter procedures and 1 . 5 million cataract operations.
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Guidant Corp . fell 3 to 46 3 / 8 after the maker of cardiac catheters and other products had disappointing third-quarter revenue growth of 11 percent, which overshadowed a 47 percent gain in net income.
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Working at Bellevue Hospital in New York in the 1940s, she contributed to laboratory research that led to the cardiac catheter, a flexible tube passed through a patient's veins and directly into the heart or coronary arteries.
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Dr . M . Irene Ferrer, a New York cardiologist and medical educator who helped refine the cardiac catheter and electrocardiogram, which have become diagnostic essentials in heart treatment, died at her apartment in Manhattan last Friday.
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It's a growing practice but one few patients realize : Medical devices like cardiac catheters and angioplasty balloons that were intended to be used once and thrown in the trash instead are resterilized and used again in other patients.
