Using the radial artery for coronary angiography and interventional procedures impairs endothelial function for several months after the procedure, and this may contribute to reduced patency rates of ...

Using a previously “instrumented” radial artery—one that has been used for transradial PCI or invasive angiography—as a bypass graft for cardiac surgery is not associated with poor clinical outcomes ...

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 ...

Cardiac catheterization, a procedure used to diagnose heart conditions, is typically performed through the femoral artery of the groin. But, increasingly, cardiologists are instead using the radial ...

One-year findings from the Distal versus Proximal Radial Artery Access for Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention (DIPRA) study were presented today as late-breaking clinical research at the Society ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA designated the recall of radial artery and arterial line catheterization kits as class I, the most ...

Teleflex and its subsidiary Arrow International have recalled the Arrow QuickFlash radial artery and radial artery/arterial line catheterization kits over a potentially defective component. The ...

Arterial catheterization allows for the continuous recording of arterial pressure measurements and can be used to adjust the doses of vasoactive drugs that are administered for hemodynamic support in ...

Time waits for no man—nor, apparently, for Medtronic, which is zooming ahead in its plan to make one of its most recently acquired device portfolios available around the world. Barely a year after the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA has cleared a 225 cm radial access catheter for PAD atherectomy. Radial access may reduce bleeding risk ...

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 ...