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 ...

As expected, there was significant decrease in the proportion of procedures using femoral-artery access, from 84.6% in 2006 to 59.2% in 2011 (P <0.0001 overall), although rates plateaued between ...

Review Article Published: 25 August 2016 Arterial access and arteriotomy site closure devices Sunil V. Rao & Gregg W. Stone Nature Reviews Cardiology 13, 641–650 (2016) Cite this article ...

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 ...

As the evidence grows for the superiority of radial access over femoral access with regard to reducing bleeding events and improving clinical outcomes, the authors discuss the modern approach to ...

During clinical follow-up, the rate of 30-day bleeding (defined by HORIZONS-AMI bleeding criteria) and access-site complications were 80% lower in patients treated via the radial artery (7.2% in ...

Treating chronic total occlusions (CTOs), complex bifurcations, heavily calcified lesions, and left main coronary artery disease with large-bore catheters via the radial artery is associated with ...

Internal Contralateral Bypass Circuit In other settings, the superficial femoral artery may be diseased and totally occluded — not an uncommon finding in patients with CAD — which may preclude ...

Research Highlight Published: 26 April 2011 Interventional cardiology Radial artery access—a RIVAL to the femoral approach Alexandra King Nature Reviews Cardiology 8, 302 (2011) Cite this article ...

Among the 261 lesions, 37.5% were located in the superficial femoral artery and 19.2% in the common iliac artery. The primary endpoint of procedure success rate occurred in 98.1% of cases.

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 ...