Diagnosing coronary heart disease has been accomplished since the 1960s by coronary angiography. During the process, involving guiding a catheter tube through the body to the heart, contrast dye is ...

In patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing cardiac catheterization, the postprocedural rate of silent cerebral infarct is high but does not differ between radial and femoral access, according ...

In experienced hands, hybrid radial-pedal access techniques represent a practical alternative to femoral access for selected ...

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 States ...

Jugular vein catheters are thought to be less prone to infection than femoral vein catheters, but evidence from randomized trials has been lacking. Now, results of the Cathedia study in France suggest ...

(HealthDay News) — For patients in intensive care units who need a catheter, placement in the subclavian vein appears to lower the risk of bloodstream infection and deep-vein thrombosis, compared to ...

The patient had arrived a few days earlier complaining of chest pains, reason unknown. The case, while not an emergency, was deemed a priority. Doctors at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center ...

For critically ill patients requiring dialysis, insertion of the catheter in a vein in the neck does not appear to reduce the risk of infection compared to vein access in the upper leg, except for ...

Central venous catheterization of the subclavian vein was associated with the lowest risk for bloodstream infections and symptomatic thrombosis compared with insertions at the jugular or femoral veins ...

Controlling pain using a femoral nerve catheter rather than standard intravenous opioids may improve early knee function after total knee arthroplasty, a study suggests. Martin L. De Ruyter, MD, ...