Routine use of the Fogarty embolectomy catheter after cardiac catheterization through a brachial arteriotomy in 25 patients was associated with a decline in major and minor complications from 28 to ...

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 came up with the idea of threading a hollow bendy tube – a catheter – along the artery instead, feeding it cautiously past the obstruction.

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.

The Fogarty Institute for Innovation is looking for a few good medical device makers. The educational nonprofit, which currently houses 13 med device startups on the campus of El Camino Hospital ...