Nowadays, Fogarty is better known for his successful winery and for his innovations in surgical technology, the first of which, the balloon catheter, revolutionized vascular surgery in the 1960s ...

Fogarty dedicated his career to improving medicine. His balloon embolectomy catheter, invented when he was still in medical school, revolutionized vascular surgery and launched an era of minimally ...

The effort needed to establish the Fogarty embolectomy balloon catheter as the professional standard still rankles: “The first article we wrote on the clinical experience of the balloon catheter ...

Fogarty invented the balloon catheter 50 years ago and has more than 40 startups and 165 surgical patents to his credit. Fogarty also is outspoken about regulation of medical devices and venture ...

Dr. Tom Fogarty, the inventor of the balloon catheter that has saved millions of lives since the 1960s, talks about what worries him about starting new medical device companies today. Dr. Tom ...

The balloon embolectomy catheter may improve circulation ... This observation is similar to our experience before use of the Fogarty catheter and supports our view that catheterization of the ...

Edwards Lifesciences issued a recall of multiple lots of their Miller Balloon Atrioseptostomy Catheter and Fogarty Dilation Atrioseptostomy Catheter on March 28, which the US Food and Drug ...

including the industry standard Fogarty Balloon Embolectomy Catheter and the widely-used Aneuryx Stent Graft. As a result of his prolific innovation, he was inducted into the Inventor’s Hall of ...

All neonates were sedated and mechanically ventilated before BAS. A size 7 French Fogarty balloon septostomy catheter was introduced into the femoral or umbilical vein. Heparin (100 IU/kg ...

The recall affects Miller Balloon Atrioseptostomy Catheters and Fogarty Dilation Atrioseptostomy Catheters model numbers 830515F and 830705F, which were distributed in the United States between ...