Data are early, retrospective, and unlikely to influence guidelines, but interest among operators is growing, says Sameh ...

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 . Patients who underwent primary PCI via radial access had comparable 30-day outcomes to those treated via femoral ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who are morbidly obese had fewer wound complications with percutaneous femoral access for endovascular ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A California-based medical device company that makes a femoral artery access device is seeking $19 million and has raised $16.5 million of that, according to a regulatory filing. Arstasis makes the ...

WASHINGTON (Dec. 21, 2015) -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 ...