The Swan-Ganz pulmonary-artery catheter (PAC) has long been used at many centers to guide treatment decisions according to hemodynamic responses, despite controversy over whether the technique ...

The placement of a Swan-Ganz catheter allows specialists to diagnose or test for major heart issues without requiring you to undergo major surgery. Usually, it’s a diagnostic tool for people in ...

The most tremendous advancements in the field of cardiovascular medicine over the past two decades, I’d argue, have been in the areas of structural heart disease and imaging. In the 1960s and 1970s, ...

Pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) use in cardiac intensive care units (CICUs) across North America appears to depend more on the habits and preferences of treating physicians and institutions than it ...

Beirut: The department of Cardiology at LAU Medical Center- Rizk Hospital led by Dr. Georges Ghanem has recently concluded a successful training session on Swan-Ganz Catheterization, welcoming a ...

Investigators found significant shifts in diagnosis of and prescriptions for pulmonary hypertension (PH) when exercise right heart catheterization was used. A new report shows the use of exercise ...