For the first time, ESC Guidelines published today give the highest degree of recommendation for the radial approach over the femoral one for coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary ...

WASHINGTON, DC — The radial approach to angiography and intervention intervention is more commonly being used as an alternative to the traditional femoral approach, with a 10-fold increase in its use ...

Radial artery access for diagnostic coronary angiography and PCI as an alternative to femoral artery access has been used internationally for 2 decades and may be gaining momentum in the United States ...

Women who undergo coronary angiography and PCI have a greater risk for major vascular complications compared with men, but use of radial access was associated with reduced complications in both sexes, ...

The key feature defining transcatheter cardiovascular interventions is that access to the vessels and heart is achieved by arterial puncture with a needle, rather than surgical incision with a scalpel ...

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 ...

Both the trans-radial approach (TRA) and the trans-femoral approach (TFA) have been employed for cerebral angiography, but the relative advantages of these two techniques remain uncertain. To compare ...

Patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing coronary angiogram, a procedure used to assess blockages in the heart's arteries, had a significantly lower risk of major bleeding and death if their ...

If you are experiencing chest pain, your doctor may recommend a cardiac catheterization (also known as a coronary angiogram) to get images of your heart and learn the cause. Cardiac catheterizations ...

Hackensack University Medical Center, a part of Hackensack Meridian Health, became one of the first hospitals in the country to perform a new test for patients at risk of a heart attack or ...