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 ...

BOSTON -- A short course of rivaroxaban (Xarelto) after transradial coronary procedures helped prevent radial artery occlusion complications, the RIVARAD trial from Tunisia showed. The direct-acting ...

While failure rates for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are equally low when using the left or right radial artery, radial-access procedures from the right side are associated with longer ...

In patients who previously underwent transradial coronary angiography or PCI, operators can safely return to the same radial artery for repeat procedures done within 30 days of the first, a new study ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After more than 20 years of experience with transradial cardiac catheterization, there are now multiple registry ...

LIMA — The cath lab at Lima Memorial Health System now offers Radial Artery Cardiac Catheterization. Radial caths are done through a small puncture site in the radial artery, located in the wrist area ...

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 ...

More than a million times a year, an interventional cardiologist snakes a narrow tube inside a patient's heart to examine its chambers and blood vessels. The minimally invasive procedure, used to ...

Acquisition of RIST Neurovascular Enhances Medtronic's Capabilities to Serve Patients Treated for Brain Aneurysms and Other Neurovascular Conditions The addition of the Rist 079 Radial Access Guide ...