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Drs. Riyaz Bashir, Paul Forfia and Anjali Vaidya Provide Perspective for Temple News Article Highlighting Development of BASHIR™ Endovascular Catheter

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A Temple News article highlighted the development of the BASHIR™ Endovascular Catheter (THROMBOLEX, Inc.), invented by Riyaz Bashir, MD, FACC, Director of Vascular and Endovascular Medicine at Temple University Hospital (TUH) and Professor of Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, and developed by Thrombolex Inc. The article also included perspective from Paul Forfia, MD, Co-Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension, Right Heart Failure & Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) Program at TUH; and Anjali Vaidya, MD, FACC, FASE, FACP, Co-Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension, Right Heart Failure & CTEPH Program at TUH.