We thread a catheter into the main portal vein there, and then we simply drip the cells in under gravity.
We leave that catheter under the skin for a month.
and thread a profusion catheter into the cholesterol-choked artery of today's society, we-- every one of us--
Put a catheter in their vein, allow them to press a lever to receive a cocaine injection.
And they put a catheter that goes all the way up to your brain.
So as we pull the catheter out, we plug the track in the liver.
And you can see with the catheter placed under the skin, and then we put the cells in the blue line, blood glucose comes down quite nicely,
So then I got out a syringe with a Teflon catheter and I started making these little water bubbles.
We leave the tube under the skin-- a simple catheter that we use routinely in the x-ray department.
And we get the radiologist to put a catheter into the main vein that goes up into the liver.
heart, and there's a catheter in here that you really can't see very clearly. The catheter is injecting dye into the main pumping chamber.
Because we learned this perhaps in our first early cases, when we pulled the catheter out of the liver, we initially got bleeding.
And here you can see islets surviving in that round area that used to have the little catheter on the top left there.
And we measure the portal pressure while we do this, we give heparin to prevent blood clotting at the end, before we pull that catheter out.
me one evening to the surgical intensive care unit where a middle-aged woman lay intubated on a respirator with multiple IV lines, a Foley catheter , a chest tube etcetera, etcetera.
Murphy had reported on research he had done using an experimental bean meal fed to volunteers, who had been rigged by a rectal catheter , to outgas into a measurement device.