As expected, there was significant decrease in the proportion of procedures using femoral-artery access, from 84.6% in 2006 to 59.2% in 2011 (P<0.0001 overall), although rates plateaued between ...

Femoral artery access for percutaneous cardiac procedures is safest when the arteriotomy is in the common femoral artery above the femoral artery bifurcation and below the inferior epigastric ...

Among patients presenting to the hospital within 12 hours of STEMI, radial-access PCI was associated with a lower rate of major bleeding and access-site complications, less use of contrast volume ...

Crossover to femoral access from radial was higher than in the other direction in both women and men (P < .0001 for both; P for interaction = .054). Among women, radial-to-femoral crossover occurred ...

For those reasons, use of the radial artery for complex cases varies across centers, countries, operators, and younger and older generations of physicians, he said. For a lot of operators, said van ...

The femoral artery is important because it serves as an access point to perform different kinds of endovascular surgeries. What Is the Femoral Artery? The femoral artery is tasked with delivering ...

Radial artery access for diagnostic coronary angiography and PCI as an alternative to femoral artery access has been used internationally for 2 decades and may be gaining momentum in the United ...

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 high-risk heart attack ...

The authors conclude: "In patients with ACS undergoing coronary angiography, radial access did not reduce the primary outcome of death, myocardial infarction, stroke or, non-coronary artery bypass ...

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 high-risk heart attack ...

To begin a femoral endarterectomy, a surgeon will make an incision in the groin to access the femoral artery. The surgeon will then cut into the femoral artery and remove the plaque by peeling it ...