By 30 days after the procedure, 3.7% of the patients in the radial-artery group had suffered death, heart attack, stroke or major bleeding, compared to 4% of those in the femoral artery group.

Angiography involves the use of x-ray imaging to examine blood vessels. ... First, a needle is placed into the femoral artery. All areas of the body can be addressed from this one site.

For gastroduodenal-artery angiography, 20 to 25 ml. of 60 per cent meglumine diatrizoate was employed. ... although 2 patients required endarterectomy for local femoral occlusion.

Successful selection of the supra-aortic vessels and acquisition of images of sufficient quality to make the basic diagnosis occurred in 91.0% of cases done via the radial artery and 95.8% done via ...

The radial artery is smaller than the femoral, so radial access requires more skill.” “At the present time,” Anderson added, “we should not be using a radial approach for routine cerebral ...

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 ...

The procedure, performed in late February on a 73-year-old woman from Sebastopol, was a coronary angiogram in which doctors threaded a catheter through a patient’s radial artery via the wrist to ...

Femoral artery size. The femoral artery is 4 centimeters long and lies near the femoral head. This is the ball-shaped bone at the top of the femur bone that fits in the socket between your hip ...

PAD can occur in the femoral artery, reducing blood flow to the legs. This can cause pain, weakness, and cold sensations in the legs and feet. A femoral endarterectomy is a surgical procedure.