Medscape

Femoral PCI Access for Chronic Total Occlusions: Common, More Complications

CARDIFF, WALES — Although the femoral artery remains a common access point for chronic total occlusion (CTO) PCI, it's associated with increased risk of access-site complications like bleeding but ...
TCTMD

Ultrasound for Femoral Access? Neutral Results vs Common Sense: UNIVERSAL

BOSTON, MA—Ultrasound guidance for femoral access does not appear to reduce bleeding or vascular complications but does reduce the risk of venipuncture and lowers the number of arterial puncture ...
TCTMD

SAFARI Surprise: No Survival or Bleeding Advantage With Radial Over Femoral Access in STEMI

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 ...
Medscape

Examining the Appropriateness of Radial or Femoral Access

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 ...
Nature

Radial artery access—a RIVAL to the femoral approach

The radial approach for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) reduces vascular access site complications when compared with the femoral approach and results in similar success rates. These findings ...
Medical Xpress

Radial arterial access found superior to femoral access in percutaneous coronary intervention

New data demonstrate the superiority of radial arterial access compared to femoral arterial access for coronary interventions. Findings showed radial access was associated with lower rates of ...
Nature

Arterial access and arteriotomy site closure devices

Cardiac catheterization begins with arterial access and ends with access-site closure, both of which are fundamental to the safe performance of diagnostic and interventional procedures The preferred ...
News Medical

Current state of femoral artery access technique

As the evidence grows for the superiority of radial access over femoral access with regard to reducing bleeding events and improving clinical outcomes, the authors discuss the modern approach to ...
Medical Xpress

Radial access for coronary interventions confers lower mortality than femoral access

Radial artery access for coronary angiography or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is associated with lower risks of all-cause death and bleeding compared with femoral access. That's the ...
Medical Dialogues

Radial arterial access demonstrates procedural safety for treatment of peripheral artery disease: Study

Results from the largest real-world propensity-matched comparison to date show that radial-to-peripheral (R2P) access ...
Healthline

Femoral artery

Spanning from the groin to the leg and stopping at the knee is the femoral artery. This artery carries oxygen-rich blood to each of your legs. The health of the femoral artery determines the health of ...