Radial approach

A 56-year-old man was re-admitted with chest pain. He had been hospitalized 2 weeks before because of MI, was suffering from metastatic carcinoma with recurrent PTE, and was on long-term subcutaneous heparin...

Watch this session to find out more about a life-threatening complication of radial access, together with a rare complication highlighting the need to respect the radial artery.

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The aims of this study were to examine clinical and procedural outcomes in post-CABG patients who underwent diagnostic catheterization and/or PCI via the radial or femoral approach.

The RADIAL study sought to explore the impact of prolonged occlusion flow-mediated dilatation (PO-FMD) in improving radial artery cannulation success.

The aim of this study was to compare the rate of proximal RAO with Doppler ultrasound (DUS) between distal and conventional radial access 24 h after a transradial coronary procedure.

Consult this Twitter case on the management of a persistent kinking of diagnostic catheter (JR4) after failure of usual techniques.

Radial artery spasm is inevitable when dealing with small caliber one, especially in calcified radial artery. We describe a case in which radial sheath broke due to severe radial spasm and successfully removed by vascular surgical extraction.

A 77-year-old man was admitted for an elective diagnostic coronary angiogram. Following insertion of a 6Fr sheath into the distal right radial artery, a radial angiogram showed complete 360 degree radial artery loop...

View this case of a 60-year-old female patient who was scheduled for PCI of the LAD, during which perforation occurred. What would be your treatment options?

View this very uncommon case in which balloons do not expand even after a rather aggressive rotational atherectomy: a 43-year-old male with hypertension, smoking and dyslipidemia presents with total occlusion of proximal left anterior descending artery with fresh thrombus...

Consult this Twitter Case concerning a 61-year-old man with a diagnosis of anterior STEMI who was immediately transferred to the cath lab for primary percutaneous coronary intervention...

Consult this session to learn more about the best treatment options for patients presenting with left main and complex bifurcations lesions, and gain insights on vascular healing and latest clinical outcomes with Ultimaster DES.

Consult this session on radial artery clinical cases, to learn more about this approach and how to cope with the potential complications.

Consult this session to discover compelling clinical cases regarding radial artery challenges, such as the percutaneous retrieval of a kinked catheter in the right subclavian artery, proximal and distal compression for treatment of radial artery pseudo-aneurysm, and more!

Mirvat Al Asnag reported live on major late-breaking trials presented at ACC 2019 in New Orleans: SAFARI-STEMI, STOPDAPT-2, SMART-CHOICE, TREAT and more

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Radial access is generally very simple, but sometimes it can be more challenging. Watch these videos to become more confident and improve your performance in this technique. The course follows a logical sequence, from patient selection, to puncture and navigation, to ostia vessel cannulation. Consult...

Balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) may still have a role in the transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) era. Trans-radial BAV, herein described, has been developed to reduce peripheral complications and make the procedure safer.

This multiple large randomised trials includes more than 18,000 patients comparing transradial vs. transfemoral access for coronary intervention that have shown that transradial access improves outcomes including major vascular complications, bleeding and mortality!

Read this EuroIntervention article by Shmuel Chen et al. on the procedural characteristics of transradial access (TRA) versus transfemoral access (TFA) in patients who were treated with PCI for left main coronary artery disease.