Most patients are candidates for the wrist route, Ziaee said. Exceptions include those prone to having their arteries spasm or those who have poor blood flow to the hand or blockages in the arm.

Unclogging arteries without surgery has become commonplace, but now there's a new twist. Instead of going up through an artery in the groin, doctors at Swedish Medical Center are using the wrist ...

Glen Leif, 61, had two cardiac catheterizations within four years to check for blocked heart arteries. The first was performed through the femoral artery near the groin.

The American College of Cardiology estimates that, of the millions of catheterizations done over the past two decades, at least nine in 10 have been through the femoral artery. It's a big artery ...

Following a heart attack, Jensen had his arteries cleared with a new procedure that uses wrist access rather than the traditional femoral artery. (Logan Werlinger/Grand Forks Herald) ByPamela Knudson ...

An experimental wrist-worn device was found to predict troponin-I and obstructed arteries with 90% accuracy in five minutes, according to research being presented at the American College of ...

COMMON PROCEDURE: Angioplasty physically opens the channel of diseased arterial segments and relieves the recurrence of chest pain. Since it is performed through a little needle hole in the groin ...

A potential downside of surgery on the wrist is that it’s a small area with a lot of important tendons, nerves, and arteries. This can make surgery very complex, which can make it take longer.

Jolly, assistant professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, said he uses the wrist approach in about 80 percent of his cases.

Study: Is wrist or leg artery better to reach heart? The shortest path to the heart turns out to be the best one - not in love necessarily, but in cardiac catheterization, one of the most common ...