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 ...

Using a 4-Fr instead of a 6-Fr guiding catheter reduces the incidence of access-site-related complications in patients undergoing transradial percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), according to ...

Radial artery access for diagnostic coronary angiography and PCI as an alternative to femoral artery access has been used internationally for 2 decades and may be gaining momentum in the United States ...

Time waits for no man—nor, apparently, for Medtronic, which is zooming ahead in its plan to make one of its most recently acquired device portfolios available around the world. Barely a year after the ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA has cleared a 225 cm radial access catheter for PAD atherectomy. Radial access may reduce bleeding risk ...

In patients who previously underwent transradial coronary angiography or PCI, operators can safely return to the same radial artery for repeat procedures done within 30 days of the first, a new study ...

(WNDU) - From heart procedures to treating stroke, more than a million cardiac catheterizations are performed each year. The minimally invasive procedure can be a lifesaver, but now, new research is ...

Acquisition of RIST Neurovascular Enhances Medtronic's Capabilities to Serve Patients Treated for Brain Aneurysms and Other Neurovascular Conditions The addition of the Rist 079 Radial Access Guide ...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RIST Neurovascular, Inc., a neuro-interventional medtech company, today announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance to market ...

Each year thousands of Americans undergo cardiac catheterization, a procedure where a thin plastic tube is snaked through an artery or vein into the chambers of the heart or the coronary arteries. It ...

An aborted operation in La Jolla shows the true strength of an increasingly popular way to open blocked blood vessels. A Scripps Health cardiac team had planned to use a stent to clear a narrowed ...