Radial Access

This channel includes news, techniques and new technology innovations for radial access, also called transradial access or radial artery access. This concerns the location of introducer sheaths and vascular access for interventional procedures. Radial access is supported to result in fewer complications compared to femoral access.

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March 7, 2014 — Interventional radiologists have devised a way to access a woman's fibroids by flipping her wrist and ...

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November 13, 2013 — The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) published a first-of-its-kind ...
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By Dave Fornell, DAIC editor


The Cardiovascular Research Foundation’s Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) ...

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November 1, 2013 — A clinical trial conducted exclusively in women suggests that an initial strategy of using the radial ...
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October 7, 2013 — Merit Medical Systems Inc. announced it has acquired the assets of Radial Assist, which include the ...

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October 3, 2013 — While 95 percent of cardiac catheterizations in the United States are done through the groin ...

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September 23, 2013 — Cardiologists are increasingly accessing coronary arteries by way of the wrist rather than the ...

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September 4, 2013 — Terumo has introduced the GlideSheath Slender Hydrophilic Introducer Sheath, a 6 French sheath that ...

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Feature | Jeffrey M. Schussler M.D., FACC, FSCAI, FSCCT, FACP

Transradial coronary artery angiography was a major focus at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography Interventions ...

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May 28, 2013 — The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey approved an agreement under which Vascular ...

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Feature | Radial Access | Ajay J. Kirtane, M.D., SM, Philippe Généreux, M.D., and Stéphane Rinfret, M.D., SM

When cath labs begin performing radial access procedures, both the staff and the operators need to keep an open mind and ...

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??April 23, 2013 — Medical device developer Radial Assist LLC was recently awarded a U.S. patent for its Rad Board, a ...

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April 16, 2013 — Maquet Cardiovascular LLC has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA ...

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Over the past decade in the United States, there has been growing interest in transradial artery percutaneous access as ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

Over the past decade in the United States, there has been growing interest in transradial artery percutaneous access as ...

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