Previous small trials have been unable to establish a clinical advantage between coronary angiography via the femoral artery in the groin or the radial artery in the wrist, and there remains ...

Performing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary angiography via the radial approach does not impart any excess radiation to patients beyond what occurs during femoral access. The ...

New data from an international survey indicate significant variation in techniques and practices of transfemoral access for coronary angiography and PCI. Of the 987 operators from 88 countries who ...

Cardiac catheterization begins with arterial access and ends with access-site closure, both of which are fundamental to the safe performance of diagnostic and interventional procedures The preferred ...

Performing angioplasty and angiography through the radial artery of the arm is as effective as the traditional method of entering through the femoral artery of the groin, but has fewer complications ...

Diagnosing coronary heart disease has been accomplished since the 1960s by coronary angiography. During the process, involving guiding a catheter tube through the body to the heart, contrast dye is ...

Procedure used half the time elsewhere, but is rare in United States Interventional cardiologist Sanjay Dhar, right, monitors a cardiac catheterization done through the radial artery instead of the ...

Vascular. 2006;14(5):270-281. In an operating room fluoroscopy suite, the patient is placed on the operating table and the abdomen and groins are shaved. The patient may undergo any form of anesthesia ...

Transradial access (TRA) results in a lower diagnostic success rate and longer procedural times compared with transfemoral access (TFA) in patients undergoing cerebral angiography, the randomized ...