While coronary catheterization via radial access potentially can induce anatomic and physiological changes, patients who undergo these procedures are no more likely to report having upper-limb ...

Patients undergoing extraction of old transvenous leads via laser sheaths experienced similar success and complication rates, and shorter procedure times vs. femoral snare extraction, new study data ...

Since the first transradial interventional cases in the early 1990s, there has been a strong push by proponents of this access site for more widespread recognition of the value of this approach.

BATESVILLE — White River Medical Center cardiologists Qaisar Khan and Richard Van Grouw of Batesville Cardiology now offer radial cardiac catheterization at WRMC. An innovative approach to cardiac ...

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 ...

The patient had arrived a few days earlier complaining of chest pains, reason unknown. The case, while not an emergency, was deemed a priority. Doctors at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center ...

George M. Pedersen of Southboro is an active, 73-year-old semi-retired manufacturer's representative who enjoys snorkeling and traveling. He was somewhat surprised two years ago when his cardiologist ...

Results showed collared fully hydroxyapatite-coated femoral components had lower rates of postoperative periprosthetic ...

According to a recent case report, a new fluoroscopy-based balloon occlusion technique combined with thrombin injections proved successful in treating complex pseudoaneurysms of the common ...