- Industria: Medical devices
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Boston Scientific Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices used in various interventional medical specialties worldwide.
A condition that reduces the blood flow through the carotid arteries to the brain.
Industry:Medical devices
A surgical procedure in which the fatty plaque causing the blockage of the carotid artery is removed.
Industry:Medical devices
A long, thin, flexible tube with wires and metal bands or electrodes that is inserted into the groyne vein and threaded up through the blood vessel and into the heart under X-ray guidance. Mapping/diagnostic catheters are used to identify the location of the abnormality, and ablation catheters are used to destroy the tissue in the affected location.
Industry:Medical devices
A procedure in which abnormal cells are destroyed by radiofrequency (RF) energy. The energy is transferred to the tissue via a catheter.
Industry:Medical devices
Use or insertion of a tubular device into a duct, blood vessel, hollow organ, or body cavity. During catheterization, fluids are injected or withdrawn for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. See also cardiac catheterization.
Industry:Medical devices
A blood clot formed in one part of the body and then carried by the bloodstream to the brain, where it blocks an artery.
Industry:Medical devices
Bleeding from an artery in the brain, caused by a head injury or a burst aneurysm.
Industry:Medical devices
A blood clot (thrombus) that forms and blocks blood flow in an artery that supplies blood to part of the brain. It is the most common cause of stroke.
Industry:Medical devices
A sudden, severe attack of paralysis, loss of vision, sensation, or speech resulting from brain cell damage caused by insufficient blood supply to the brain or from injury to the brain or spinal cord. Also called cerebral vascular accident, apoplexy, or stroke.
Industry:Medical devices
