Radial Artery Access for Fistula Interventions. Is It Preferable?

[Radial artery access: should it be used more often?].

Radial access for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction interventions: does it really lower mortality?

Although the radial access option has existed for over 20 years, only recently has it been adopted for coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the United States. Despite the recent enthusiasm for this approach, only 16.1% of PCI procedures in the United States are performed radially (1), and it has been suggested that with experienced operators, the radial or femora...

Left Radial Access Is Preferable to Right Radial Access for the Diagnostic or Interventional Coronary Procedures: A Meta-Analysis Involving 22 Randomized Clinical Trials and 10287 Patients

OBJECTIVE The transradial approach has been used extensively for both diagnostic and interventional coronary procedures; however, there is no universal consensus hitherto on the optimal choice of radial access from either the left or the right artery. We therefore sought to meta-analyze available randomized clinical trials to compare the left with the right radial access for the diagnostic or i...

Searching for the second-best coronary artery bypass graft: is it the radial artery?

Virtually all cardiac surgeons and their referring cardiologists know that the most effective and reliable coronary artery bypass conduit is the pedicled internal thoracic (mammary) artery (LITA) when placed to the left anterior descending artery coronary artery (LAD). This first choice of bypass graft conduits is based on convincing evidence of improved survival in patients with critical LAD d...

Radial artery avulsion - a rare complication of radial access

The radial access is widely used for cardiac catheterization and angioplasty, with advantages such as decreased risk of bleeding and vascular complications. This case reports on a rare complication during cardiac catheterization by radial access: radial artery endothelial tissue avulsion through the catheter and its embolization to the left anterior descending artery, which was resolved by manu...