San Francisco, CA—Carotid artery stenting is equally safe and effective when performed via transradial or transfemoral access, according to results of a prospective, randomized trial presented at TCT.

For years, the United States has lagged behind the rest of the developed world in using the transradial approach for PCI or diagnostic angiography. However, with mounting evidence that the transradial ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients undergoing intervention for aortoiliac and femoropopliteal stenoses and occlusions, the use of a ...

May 4, 2011 (Baltimore, Maryland) – As transradial-access percutaneous interventions become more popular among American interventionalists, the need for guidance on training in the technique becomes ...

The direct thrombin inhibitor bivalirudin is not associated with a reduction in major bleeding or adverse events compared with heparin and provisional glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors (GPIs) in ...

LOS ANGELES — The safety advantage that has already coaxed U.S. interventional cardiologists to switch many of their routine catheterizations from femoral-artery entry in the groin to a radial-artery ...

Cardiologists from the Mayo Clinic performed sheathless transradial percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to remedy complex lesions, achieving a 90% success rate with no radial complications.

Researchers evaluated the safety and efficacy of transradial vs transfemoral access in patients with CKD undergoing PCI. Among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) undergoing percutaneous ...

In a KERA Health Checkup, a look at how doctors access an artery to check your heart for suspected blockage. It’s called percutaneous coronary intervention or PCI. Most doctors go in through the hip ...

For years cardiologists have threaded hair-like surgical instruments through arteries in the wrist, as an access point to perform procedures on the heart. For procedures in the brain, however, ...