BACKGROUND Left internal thoracic artery-to left anterior descending artery grafting has become a fundamental part of coronary artery bypass grafting. This grafting has led to increased use of other arterial conduits, of which the radial artery is most popular. Whether radial grafting can be used in the emergency patient is not known. This study compares the short-term clinical evolution betwee...

The radial artery (RA) has emerged as an important arterial graft for coronary bypass surgery. With improving five-year patency rates and increasing uptake, great attention has been focused on the optimal conduit harvesting technique. We herein present our approach to RA harvesting. Prerequisites of a successful harvest include adherence to important anatomical landmarks, protection of the sens...

BACKGROUND Simultaneous measurement of ascending aorta and radial artery pressure shows that mean and diastolic pressures (DP) are in close agreement in normotensive adults, while systolic pressures (SP) are not. However, in the aortic pressure wave, a second systolic peak appears with increasing age and increases to represent the SP by age 32 yr, while in the radial artery, a second systolic d...

We report a 3-year-old boy with DS in whom radial artery pulsations were incidentally detected to be bilaterally absent. Bilateral ulnar artery and all other peripheral pulsations were normal. His blood pressure in right upper arm was normal, 96/66 mm Hg. Twodimensional echocardiography was normal. Doppler ultrasonography of the arterial trunks of the upper limbs suggested normal ulnar artery w...

The percutaneous transradial approach for cardiac catheterization has been shown to be a safe alternative to the femoral artery approach, owing to the favorable anatomical relation of the radial artery to surrounding structures and the dual blood supply to the hand. With the miniaturization of coronary interventional equipment, Kiemeneij and Laarmen have advocated the technique as an alternativ...