To these we are adding 3 cases, making a total of 193. Two of our 3 patients were treated by embolectomy, and 1 by supportive measures, including lumbar sympathectomy without removal of the embolus.

To the Editor: The article on unilateral pulmonary embolectomy by Bradley et al. and subsequent correspondence appearing in the October 1 and December 17, 1964, issues of the Journal have posed ...

Nominations open March 24 for the new Thomas J. Fogarty Prize for medtech innovation, funded by the Linda and Mike Mussallem Foundation and law firm ...

Fogarty dedicated his career to improving medicine. His balloon embolectomy catheter, invented when he was still in medical school, revolutionized vascular surgery and launched an era of minimally ...