“Radial catheterizations are easier on the patient,” said Peter Mason, MD, MPH, a Froedtert & MCW interventional cardiologist and director of the Froedtert & MCW Cardiac Catheterization ...

What happens during a cardiac catheterization? You’ll put on a hospital gown. ... This could be at your groin (they’ll call this the femoral approach) or on your wrist (the radial approach).

Femoral Catheterization The femoral artery presents a direct route to the heart. To a physician, it's a straight stretch of freeway that can be navigated easily. Femoral catheterizations have been ...

Coronary stents were first successfully inserted through a femoral catheter and deployed in 1986. The first radial catheterization was performed by Dr. Lucien Campeau in 1989, followed in 1993 by ...

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 ...

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

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

Cardiac cath with radial access usually makes the artery out-of-bounds for surgery—that should change, say researchers. By Michael O'Riordan ... The patency of the grafts at just beyond 4 years was ...

The Distal vs Proximal Radial Artery Access for Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention (DIPRA) study's one-year data were presented as the latest clinical research at the Society for ...

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 ...