Overall complication rates were similar to those seen with transfemoral access, however, and patients liked it better.

The pre-operative evaluation can also help the healthcare provider decide where to access a blood vessel (most often via the femoral artery or vein of the leg or the radial artery of the forearm). If ...

When extensive superficial femoral artery disease coexists, the profunda femoris, even in its distal portion, may be used as the outflow vessel. To test this assumption we compared cumulative ...

Migraine with brainstem aura or MBA (formerly known as basilar migraines) are headaches that start in the lower part of the brain, called the brainstem. They cause symptoms such as dizziness ...

An artery that temporarily runs down the center of our forearms while we're still in the womb isn't vanishing as often as it used to, according to a study published in 2020 from researchers at ...

Coronary artery bypass surgery is a procedure to treat coronary heart disease. There are various types, including multiple bypass and minimally invasive. The medical name for coronary artery or ...

These arteries (which also include the aorta, pulmonary artery, and femoral artery) are the largest in the body and they are closest to the heart; they give rise to medium-sized vessels (or muscular ...

Introduction: Anterior knee pain and other patello-femoral (PF) complications frequently limit the success of total knee arthroplasty as the final treatment of end stage osteoarthritis. However, ...

Background With transradial access (TRA) being more progressively used in neuroendovascular procedures, we compared TRA with transfemoral access (TFA) in middle meningeal artery embolization ... TRA ...