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 ...

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 ...

Transradial catheterization—when a clinician inserts a long thin tube through the radial artery in the arm—is commonly used to diagnose and treat certain heart conditions. A recent analysis of ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Currently in the United States, there are very few centers that have greater than 50% radial penetration.

Robert W. Yeh, MD, MBA, director of the Smith Center for Outcomes Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, MA), is an interventional cardiologist who specializes in clinical research ...

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LIMA — The cath lab at Lima Memorial Health System now offers Radial Artery Cardiac Catheterization. Radial caths are done through a small puncture site in the radial artery, located in the wrist area ...

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 ...

Transradial catheterization--when a clinician inserts a long thin tube through the radial artery in the arm--is commonly used to diagnose and treat certain heart conditions. A recent analysis of ...