The key feature defining transcatheter cardiovascular interventions is that access to the vessels and heart is achieved by arterial puncture with a needle, rather than surgical incision with a scalpel ...

Uptake of transradial cardiac catheterization and PCI is on the rise in the United States, an increase driven not only by younger operators entering practice with a strong radial background but also ...

Vascular. 2006;14(5):270-281. In an operating room fluoroscopy suite, the patient is placed on the operating table and the abdomen and groins are shaved. The patient may undergo any form of anesthesia ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Radial access PCI use increased since 2013, with lower mortality and bleeding vs. femoral access PCI. However, ...

Both the trans-radial approach (TRA) and the trans-femoral approach (TFA) have been employed for cerebral angiography, but the relative advantages of these two techniques remain uncertain. To compare ...