Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. In March, new technology at the Wisconsin Heart Hospital in ...

Under full anesthesia, a small metallic clip is threaded from a patient's thigh to his or her heart through a plastic tube. The clip is then attached to a valve of the heart, and left there. This ...

If you are experiencing chest pain, your doctor may recommend a cardiac catheterization (also known as a coronary angiogram) to get images of your heart and learn the cause. Cardiac catheterizations ...

Holding patients NPO before cardiac catheterization procedures was not safer but did come with costs, a randomized trial showed. No restrictions on oral intake didn't increase the risk of the primary ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A joint statement outlines best practices for training and competency in cardiac catheterization for congenital ...

Folks undergoing cardiac catheterization procedures to diagnose heart problems may be able to safely skip the traditional pre-op fasting that's now the norm, new research shows. "Just as our ...

An eight-year HonorHealth Research Institute clinical trial, using non-surgical techniques, showed 86% of patients with a type of usually fatal low blood pressure known as "structural shock" survived ...

Routine catheterization during minor gynecologic surgeries is associated with more than double the rate of UTIs compared with procedures without catheterization. Among 762 patients undergoing minor ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Not fasting before cardiac catheterization procedures with conscious sedation was just as safe as fasting.