ROME, Italy—(UPDATED) Radial artery anomalies are present in nearly one in ten patients undergoing radial access PCI for STEMI and are a key reason for transradial failure, according to the analysis ...

Major cardiac events were fewer at 5 years in patients receiving a radial artery graft as the second conduit in coronary bypass surgery (CABG) vs a saphenous-vein graft (SVG) in a patient-level ...

New long-term data from the CSP 474 trial offers a challenge to some of the conventional wisdom around graft choice in CABG surgery and may further the debate over recent guideline recommendations.

BOSTON -- A short course of rivaroxaban (Xarelto) after transradial coronary procedures helped prevent radial artery occlusion complications, the RIVARAD trial from Tunisia showed. The direct-acting ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The rate of forearm radial artery occlusion was “extremely low” after conventional transradial and distal radial ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients undergoing diagnostic cardiac catheterization using transradial access, the use of prophylactic ...

Compared with the saphenous vein grafts (SVG), radial-artery grafts were significantly less likely to occlude and as likely to be fully patent at one-year angiography in 440 patients who received both ...

In patients with peripheral artery disease, radial artery access is safe and feasible for peripheral vascular intervention. Radial artery access is safe and feasible for peripheral vascular ...

The use of radial-artery grafts for coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) may result in better postoperative outcomes than the use of saphenous-vein grafts. However, randomized, controlled trials ...

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 ...

Medtronic plc MDT recently received the CE Mark for its radial artery access portfolio, consisting of the Rist 079 Radial Access Guide Catheter and the Rist Radial Access Selective Catheter. This ...

Dear Doctor K: I am scheduled to have an angioplasty next week. The doctor plans to insert the catheter through my wrist. Is there some advantage to doing it through the wrist rather than the thigh?