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The original symposium was held during the 2008 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting on October 16 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington DC and is being presented through a partnership of Angioplasty.Org, TCTMD.com and Terumo Medical Corporation. A full multimedia version of the hour-long presentation, divided into four segments, can be accessed here, in Angioplasty.Org's Radial Access Center. The topics covered include:
This program should be of interest to any physician who wishes to find out more about this alternate approach to catheter-based procedures, one which has been shown to reduce bleeding and mortality by 50%. Angioplasty.Org wishes to thank the TCTMD website for allowing this presentation to be seen by a wide audience. Additional presentations from the TCT meetings are available through the TCT's premium service, TCT Gold. About The Radial Access Center on Angioplasty.Org For patients there is also a "Hospital Locator" that lists U.S. centers practicing radial angiography. As Dr. Howard Cohen of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York says of the wrist technique, "Patients really prefer it. 95% of people who've had it both ways would say 'I'm coming back to you, Dr. Cohen because I like this transradial a lot better than the other way!'
Reported by Burt Cohen, January 5, 2009 |
