Dear Dr. Roach: For quite some time now, I've been suffering from a persistent urinary tract infection, accompanied by an elevated PSA. This resulted in a biopsy, which was positive for early-stage ...

The following text summarizes information provided in the video. Pulmonary-artery catheterization aids the diagnosis and management of numerous cardiovascular illnesses, including pulmonary ...

Each year thousands of Americans undergo cardiac catheterization, a procedure where a thin plastic tube is snaked through an artery or vein into the chambers of the heart or the coronary arteries. It ...

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 ...

A urostomy bag and a catheter are two different devices that can help drain and collect urine from your body. A urostomy is often permanent, whereas a catheter is not. If you have certain medical ...

To review systematically the clinical evidence of the effectiveness of various intermittent catheter cleaning methods that have been proposed as methods to prepare catheters for reuse. A keyword ...

The heart pumps blood around the body. If the heart does not work as it should, a person may need to undergo a heart procedure as part of their treatment. Some heart conditions are manageable with ...

Morton Kern, MD, often engages his colleagues via email in brief, informal dialogue on clinically relevant topics in cardiology. Morton Kern, MD, of VA Long Beach Healthcare System and University of ...

To present a system of urological care for patients with cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) in the Spinal Cord Unit in Prague. Forty-one out of 412 patients hospitalized with acute SCI between 2007 and ...

Cardiac catheterization is a procedure that provides information on how well the heart is working. To perform this procedure, a healthcare professional inserts flexible tubing into the heart through a ...