"The radial artery is a good second option for grafting after the internal mammary artery because of its length, diameter, wall thickness and also because of the lack of harvest-site complications ...

With radial artery (RA) grafts still underutilized in ... the issue of RA graft patency -- stemming from the thick muscular walls on RA grafts -- is thought to stand in the way of greater adoption ...

In the past decade, the radial artery has frequently been used for coronary bypass surgery despite concern regarding the possibility of graft spasm. Graft patency is a key predictor of long-term ...

The FDA designated the recall of radial artery and arterial line catheterization kits as class I, the most serious type. Affected kits may cause injury to the vessel wall, vasospasm, embolism or ...

If you observe a slight bulge and a throbbing mass just beneath the skin's surface in the hand slowly increasing in size, the ...

The patient was able to go home shortly after the catheter was removed because his doctors decided to use the radial artery in his arm, rather than the femoral artery in his leg, to access his heart.

Performing angioplasty and angiography through the radial artery of the arm is as effective as the traditional method of entering through the femoral artery of the groin, but has fewer ...

With a median follow-up of 10 years after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), patients who received a radial artery graft rather than a saphenous vein graft as a second conduit were less ...

There's a price to pay for a failed radial artery attempt in invasively managed patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), but it may not be as high as previously thought, a new MATRIX substudy ...

ATLANTA -- Radial artery access for cardiac catheterization appeared similarly safe for the hand whether done proximally or distally, the randomized DIPRA trial showed. Overall change in 30-day ...