If you are experiencing chest pain, your doctor may recommend a cardiac catheterization (also known as a coronary angiogram) to get images of your heart and learn the cause. Cardiac catheterizations ...

Diagnosing coronary heart disease has been accomplished since the 1960s by coronary angiography. During the process, involving guiding a catheter tube through the body to the heart, contrast dye is ...

Cardiac catheterization, a procedure used to diagnose heart conditions, is typically performed through the femoral artery of the groin. But, increasingly, cardiologists are instead using the radial ...

Using the radial artery for coronary angiography and interventional procedures impairs endothelial function for several months after the procedure, and this may contribute to reduced patency rates of ...

One-year findings from the Distal versus Proximal Radial Artery Access for Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention (DIPRA) study were presented today as late-breaking clinical research at the Society ...

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Transradial catheterization--when a clinician inserts a long thin tube through the radial artery in the arm--is commonly used to diagnose and treat certain heart conditions. A recent analysis of ...

LIMA — The cath lab at Lima Memorial Health System now offers Radial Artery Cardiac Catheterization. Radial caths are done through a small puncture site in the radial artery, located in the wrist area ...

While failure rates for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are equally low when using the left or right radial artery, radial-access procedures from the right side are associated with longer ...

Inserting a catheter through the radial artery in the arm appears to be linked to a lower rate of bleeding complications than the standard route through the groin. The doctor punctures the radial ...