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.

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.

SELECTIVE coronary angiography has become an invaluable means of distinguishing syndromes due to coronary-artery disease from ... and a No. 18 Cournand needle placed in the right femoral artery.

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 ...

Aspirin has recently been questioned as a preventive for heart attacks, even though we have been using it for decades. Statin ...

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 ...

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 ...

Additionally, 41% used the radial artery for 75% or more of their cases, while 25% went with radial access in fewer than 25% of their procedures. ... Reduction in Bleeding With Femoral Access. With ...