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 ...

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 ...

Radial artery access for diagnostic coronary angiography and PCI as an alternative to femoral artery access has been used internationally for 2 decades and may be gaining momentum in the United States ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A new meta-analysis supports using the ulnar artery as an alternative to the radial artery during coronary catheterization but also highlights the steep learning curve associated with this approach.

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Inserting a catheter through the radial artery in the arm appears to be linked to a lower rate of bleeding complications than the standard route through the groin. The doctor punctures the radial ...

Catholic Medical Center’s New England Heart & Vascular Institute (NEHVI) has opened a new service area for cardiac catheterization patients. Patients who use the Cardiac Radial Lounge never need to ...

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 ...