POSTS TAGGED AS cardiovascular surgery

Personalized Medical Devices—3-D Printed Biodegradable Stents

3D Printing Customized Stents
Today’s arterial stents are made from either metal or plastic. They come in different sizes, and the [MORE]

AngioVac Removes 2’ Blood Clot

AngioVac
A 62 year old man at the UCLA Medical Center presented a blood clot that stretched 24 inches [MORE]

Guidewire Development for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Neometrics Guidewires
One familiar assumption about the future of medicine is that any procedure which can be done on an [MORE]

Continuous Flow Artificial Heart

Drs. Frqazer and Cohn with improved artifical heart
NPR recently reported a story about two Texas Heart Institute physicians developing [MORE]