A Nova Scotia woman is the first person in Atlantic Canada to have a special procedure called AngioVac to treat a blood infection near her heart, rather than open-heart surgery. Ceilidh Mailman ...

Los Angeles: Doctors at the University of California Los Angeles have performed the world's first procedure to 'vacuum' a 24-inch blood clot out of a man's heart, which they feared could kill him ...

BURBANK, Calif. (KGO) -- A new procedure is helping patients survive deadly heart infections without having to go through open-heart surgery. ABC7 News learned doctors are now able to vacuum the ...

BURBANK, Calif. (KABC) -- A new minimally invasive heart procedure helped local artist Carlton Davis survive a potentially deadly infection. "I didn't think I was going to live, I really didn't, I ...

When 60-year-old Chris Teodoro was diagnosed with advanced kidney cancer in September 2014, he didn’t have a lot of options. His cancer had grown up and out of his kidney, infesting his blood vessels ...

Doctors have performed a pioneering procedure to 'vacuum' a huge blood clot out of a man's heart, which they feared could kill him instantly. Todd Dunlap, 62, became the first person to successfully ...

Physicians at Henry Ford Hospital successfully suctioned a cancerous tumor from a major vein in a patient with metastatic kidney cancer, clearing the way for him to undergo a minimally-invasive kidney ...

A Nova Scotia woman is the first person in Atlantic Canada to have a special procedure called AngioVac to treat a blood infection near her heart, rather than open-heart surgery. Ceilidh Mailman ...