Is the right-heart catheter dangerous? The scene: an intensive...Doctors are inserting a device known as a right-heart catheter into a critically ill patient...practice. It suggests that each year, the right-heart catheter may play a role in the deaths...

SUMMARY Acute right heart failure in a young person is an unusual...of acute pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure, which were confirmed by transthoracic...and systolic function, but dilated right heart chambers with severe functional tricuspid...

Hemodynamic monitoring via right heart catheterization during surgery...chose to monitor those changes via right heart catheterization during high-risk...elective noncardiac surgery; 5% had right heart catheterization. The intervention...

...week's widely publicized invasive right heart catheter study. The JAMA-published...complications, associated with the invasive right heart catheterization. Richard A. Schatz...accurate, noninvasive alternative to right heart catheterization would be desirable...

...questions the safety of invasive right heart catheters, has significance for...that the problems lie with the right heart catheter. He also stated that the...those provided by the invasive right heart catheters, such as the popular...

...of heart attacks, a study found. Right heart catheterization - in which a thin...conducting two studies on the use of right heart catheterization. "I don't think...that found patients who underwent right heart catheterization had a 21 percent...

...alterations in heart rate variability (HRV). Additionally, right heart failure is frequently a long-term outcome for these patients...participation in outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation improves right heart function and changes both sympathetic and parasympathetic...

Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 right heart the half of the heart, containing the right ventricle and right atrium, which supplies dark-red, oxygen-deficient venous blood to the lungs for oxygenation Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

United Press International 03-17-2004 Software helps give right heart drug doses NEW YORK, Mar 17, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- New computer software could help doctors give exactly...

...that it has initiated its Phase 2b right-heart catheter study of PRX-08066 in...baseline as measured directly by right-heart catheterization and will also measure...cardiac remodeling that leads to right heart failure. These kinds of effects...