A pulmonary artery catheter (PAC), also known as a Swan-Ganz catheter or right heart catheter, is a balloon-tipped catheter that is inserted into a pulmonary...

wedging a pulmonary artery catheter with an inflated balloon into a small pulmonary arterial branch. It estimates the left atrial pressure. Pulmonary venous...

example of cardiac catheterization is coronary catheterization that involves catheterization of the coronary arteries for coronary artery disease and myocardial...

A pulmonary artery is an artery in the pulmonary circulation that carries deoxygenated blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs. The largest...

g. pulmonary artery catheterization) require central venous access. There are no absolute contraindications to the use of central venous catheters. Relative...

only the pulmonary wedge pressure is obtainable via pulmonary artery catheterization. Due to the complication rate associated with pulmonary artery catheterization...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH or PHTN) is a condition of increased blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs. Symptoms include shortness of breath, fainting...

multicenter study of physicians' knowledge of the pulmonary artery catheter. Pulmonary Artery Catheter Study Group". JAMA. 264 (22): 2928–32. doi:10.1001/jama...

respiratory bronchioles. They anastomose with the branches of the pulmonary arteries, and together, they supply the visceral pleura of the lung in the...

One type of catheter ablation is pulmonary vein isolation, where the ablation is done in the left atrium in the area where the 4 pulmonary veins connect...