Patients who underwent primary PCI via radial access had comparable 30-day outcomes to those treated via femoral access, according to results from a prespecified subanalysis of the EUROMAX study.

CARDIFF, WALES — Although the femoral artery remains a common access point for chronic total occlusion (CTO) PCI, it's associated with increased risk of access-site complications like bleeding but ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Jolly and colleagues designed the UNIVERSAL randomized trial to evaluate outcomes of ultrasound-guided with ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A clinical trial conducted exclusively in women suggests that an initial strategy of using the radial artery in the arm as the entry point for cardiac catherization or percutaneous ...

After almost 20 years of research in the area of transradial PCI, there was a need for a larger, multicenter, prospective, randomized trial. The potential bias of previous registries, single-center ...

Increasing utilization of radial access may have the unintended effect of leading to more vascular complications for femoral access due to a loss of experience among operators, researchers say in a ...

Previous small trials have been unable to establish a clinical advantage between coronary angiography via the femoral artery in the groin or the radial artery in the wrist, and there remains ...

Although using the radial artery as the access point for angioplasty has been linked to reduced bleeding compared to use of the femoral artery, only a small number of high-risk heart attack patients ...

HOUSTON -- Subclavian access for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) cases in which the femoral artery isn't suitable was at least as safe as conventional transfemoral procedures, analysis ...

Long Beach, Calif. – May 2, 2024 – New data demonstrate the superiority of radial arterial access compared to femoral arterial access for coronary interventions. Findings showed radial access was ...

The radial approach for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) reduces vascular access site complications when compared with the femoral approach and results in similar success rates. These findings ...