Vascular surgerySpecial
Fogarty balloon catheter
Flexible catheter with an inflatable balloon at the tip, introduced into the vessel through an arteriotomy.
How it is used
Extraction of arterial emboli and thrombi (embolectomy) by inflating the balloon and withdrawing the catheter, dragging out the clot.
Clinical tip
Invented by Thomas J. Fogarty in 1961: it was the starting point of minimally invasive vascular surgery.
Sources
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History
Added to the catalog on 2026-09-29.
Dates derived from the project's public version-control history on GitHub, not a live collaborative edit log.