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.

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 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 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 ...

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 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 ...