OBJECTIVE To assess the feasibility and safety of coronary interventions performed through the radial artery. METHODS We studied 103 patients with ages from 38 to 86 years (57+/-8.7), 90 (87%) males, and: radial pulse with a good amplitude, presence of ulnar pulse, a good collateral flow through the palmar arch assessed with the Allen's test. RESULTS The vascular approach was obtained in 97...

AIMS The instantaneous response of the collateral circulation to isometric physical exercise in patients with non-occlusive coronary artery disease (CAD) is not known. METHODS AND RESULTS Thirty patients (age 59 +/- 9 years) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention because of stable CAD were included in the study. Collateral function was determined before and during the last minute of a ...

Introduction: The use of two arterial conduits for CABG is rapidly increasing. The second arterial conduit to LITA is usually RITA or radial artery. We sought to compare outcomes when either RITA or radial artery is exclusively used as a Y composite graft to LITA for total arterial revascularization. Material and methods:  We retrospectively analyzed 231 ...

our study was exclusively the comparison of rightand left-sided unilateral cerebral perfusion (UCP) for efficiency of cerebral protection rather than the suitability of a particular carotid artery for arterial return. The assessment of pressure in the left radial artery is of utmost importance in UCP, regardless if rightor leftsided perfusion is performed, because it reveals the efficiency of c...

Corresponding author: Kudret Keskin MD, Cardiology Department, Medicana Hospitals Bahçelievler, Eski Londra AsfaltI Haznedar, 34100 Istanbul, Turkey, phone: +905054015847, e-mail: [email protected] Received: 13.07.2013, accepted: 18.04.2014. A 65-year-old man was admitted for peripheral angiography because of intermittent claudication. On physical examination the right femoral pulse was fo...

OBJECTIVE Although a transradial angiography is accepted as the gold standard for cardiovascular procedures, cerebral angiography has been performed via transfemoral approach in most institutions. The purpose of this study is to present our experience concerning the feasibility, efficacy, and safety of a transradial approach to cerebral angiography as an alternative to a transfemoral approach. ...

Endoscopic radial artery harvesting (ERAH) is a feasible and attractive minimally invasive approach for conduit procurement, however there have been concerns about a potential neurological damage occurring at the harvest limb site secondary to injury of the radial nerve during endoscopic harvesting. We present a case of ERAH in which we evaluated intraoperatively the characteristics of radial n...

anatomical vascular variations are rare causes of carpal tunnel syndrome. an aberrant medial artery is the most common vascular variation, while an aberrant radial artery causing carpal tunnel syndrome is even more rare, with an incidence ranging less than 3%. this article reports a patient with compression of the median nerve at the carpal tunnel by an aberrant superficial branch of the radial...

Open dislocation of the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint is relatively rare. We report a case of a 32-year-old man who had open dislocation of the PIP joint of the little finger while playing American football. He had a history of chronic radial collateral ligament injury. We reconstructed the radial collateral ligament with a half-slip of the flexor digitorum superficialis tendon.