Implantable ports are devices that a doctor inserts under your skin and into a vein. They usually go in about an inch below your collarbone on your upper right chest. You might hear them called port-a ...

Central VADs are soft catheters with the distal tip placed in the superior vena cava. The catheter can stay in place for days, weeks, months, or even years. The goal of a central VAD is to maintain ...

The cardiovascular laboratory department at the hospital is centered on the care of a person's heart and blood vessel problems. The cardiac "cath lab," as it's called, has a pre- and post-procedure ...

Also called an implanted port, port-a-cath or medi-port, a chemo port has two parts: the port and the catheter. The port is a quarter-sized plastic or metal disc. (If you have the metal kind, don’t ...

A port can make intravenous chemotherapy easier on patients. Right after my stage 3 colon cancer diagnosis, something seemed odd: I was advised to have an immediate, voluntary surgery in order to get ...