1.   After threading the catheter down the artery so that the balloon passes the clot, the balloon is inflated and retracted, pulling the clot along with it.

2.   Doctors threaded a catheter from the groin area and into the brain, where they administered reteplase directly into the clot.

3.   First, a catheter is threaded through the groin artery to the level of the aneurysm.

4.   First, a catheter is meticulously threaded into the branch of the coronary artery that feeds the enlarged muscle.

5.   He told Boltz the problem was ordinarily beyond the scope of balloon angioplasty, which involves threading a catheter through the groin instead of cracking open the chest.

6.   In both cases, surgeons will make a small incision in an artery in the leg, and thread a catheter through the blood vessels leading to the aneurysm.

7.   They typically require threading a catheter through the groin and an overnight hospital stay with X-rays to see blockages and blood vessel narrowing.

8.   With the Prostatron, a catheter is threaded through the urethra into the prostate.

9.   Cheney told King that he watched as doctors threaded a catheter into his thigh.

10.   In an angiogram, a catheter is threaded from a groin or arm artery up to the heart.