Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Jolly and colleagues designed the UNIVERSAL randomized trial to evaluate outcomes of ultrasound-guided with ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA—Operators performing PCI via the femoral artery can rest assured that the procedure causes no more harm than primary PCI performed via the radial artery, according to the results of a ...

WASHINGTON (Dec. 21, 2015) -Although using the radial artery as the access point for angioplasty has been linked to reduced bleeding compared to use of the femoral artery, only a small number of ...

BOSTON -- Routine ultrasound guidance for accessing the femoral vein for percutaneous coronary procedures didn't cut down on bleeding and vascular complications, the UNIVERSAL trial showed. The ...

A new analysis of the HEAT-PPCI trial suggests that transfemoral operators might be unfairly maligned, with data showing that physicians experienced with the femoral approach achieve outcomes as good ...

Cardiologists now have a larger armamentarium available for interventional procedures, and selection of an optimal regimen is the cornerstone. Atherosclerotic plaque rupture with thrombosis is the ...

Previous small trials have been unable to establish a clinical advantage between coronary angiography via the femoral artery in the groin or the radial artery in the wrist, and there remains ...

Doctors can use either an artery in the arm (the radial approach) or in the groin (the femoral approach) to safely perform percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) on patients presenting with a heart ...

Type 1: bleeding with no action taken (not including patient decision to stop one or more medications) Type 2: any sign of hemorrhage requiring action (that does not fit the criteria for type 3, 4 or ...