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For Patients in the United States: Find a hospital near you where transradial angiograms and angioplasty are performed through the wrist

For Cardiologists:
Transradial Training Opportunities
Want to start doing radials but you need help? Browse our listing of U.S.-based courses in Transradial Angiography and Intervention. If you are offering one, you can add it to our listings.

Radial Approach Overview

First described in 1989, the use of the radial artery in the forearm for angiography and angioplasty offers a lower complication rate and a higher degree of patient comfort. Widely used in Europe and Japan, the transradial approach is starting to gain popularity among physicians in the U.S. (Read more...)

NewsCenter: Reports and Features
Breaking news, original reporting and links to transradial access-related news stories.

•	All Transradial News!
•	Transradial Aims for the SCAI
•	SCAI Radial Summit Announced for Boston in November
•	Transradial Training Course Announced at Duke University School of Medicine
•	Where Can I Get a Stent or Angioplasty Done Through the Wrist?
•	Stents and Angioplasty from the Wrist: Texas Style
•	Lucien Campeau, Transradial Pioneer, Dies at 82
•	Transradial Approach to Angioplasty and Stenting to be Featured at SCAI 2010 Annual Meeting
•	Does Less Angioplasty in Women Having a Heart Attack Lead to Worse Outcomes?
•	Angioplasty from the Wrist: Help for Patients and Physicians
•	It�s All In The Wrist� And On The Web: U.S. Physician Demand For Transradial Access Education On The Rise
•	Transradial Hands-On Learning Labs Offered by Terumo at American College of Cardiology Meeting
•	The way to the heart is through the wrist (from The Examiner of Independence, Missouri)
•	SRO for the Transradial Seminar at TCT!!
•	To Inspect the Heart, Some Doctors Now Start at the Wrist (Washington Post)
•	Training for Transradial Angioplasty: Get On The Wait List
•	Transradial Angioplasty Activities at TCT 2009
•	Transradial Wrist Angioplasty Safe and Effective in Treatment of Heart Attack
•	Angioplasty from the Wrist: Interest is Growing But Lack of Training Limits Spread in U.S.
•	Leading Interventional Cardiologists Discuss the Advantages of Transradial Access
•	Is Radial Angioplasty at a Turning Point in the United States?
•	Angioplasty from the Radial Artery in the Wrist is Safer, Says Study of 600,000 Patients
•	White Paper: Transradial Cardiac Catheterizations Using Optitorque Catheters
•	Interest in Transradial Angioplasty Growing Among U.S. Cardiologists
•	Another Way To Rescue A Threatened Heart: Through The Wrist (from Florida Today)
•	Wrist Angioplasty Associated with 50% Less Blood Transfusions and Lower Mortality
•	Angioplasty from the Wrist: Transradial Approach Offers Benefits to Patients and Physicians

TCT presentations from the archives:

Multimedia Symposium: Transradial Access: The Advantages to You, Your Patient and Hospital
This event was originally held on October 16, 2008 as part of the activities, symposia and workshops, offered by Terumo Interventional Systems at the 2008 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting in Washington DC. The panels consists of Dr. Jeffrey Popma, Dr. Ramon Quesada, Dr. Ron Caputo and Dr. Shigeru Saito.

A Visual Tutorial to Radial Access
		Click thru this tutorial slideshow, created by Dr. Mauricio G. Cohen, now Director of the Catheterization Laboratories, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

External Reference Material and Bibliographic Links
A listing of journal articles and web links about transradial access and related topics. These are provided as a service by Angioplasty.Org, which is not responsible for the content found on any external sites.

Discussion Forum
Angioplasty.Org hosts a Forum for topics in interventional cardiology. In some of the most posted-to threads, patients discuss complications they have encountered, often involving femoral access.

In the topic about radial access, patients describe their experiences with transradial angioplasty. A recent patient stated that he felt "more pain at the dentist having a filling" Other relevant topics deal with complications from the femoral approach. While these postings represent a small percentage of all catheterizations performed, it is instructive to read these stories to help recognize and treat these occurrences.

•	Post your experiences with having the radial approach to angioplasty
•	Femoral Complications from Catheterization or Angioplasty
•	Angio-Seal, StarClose and Other Vascular Closure Devices

Angioplasty.Org Interview with:
Sanjay Patel MD, FACC

Dr. Sanjaykumar Patel, MD, FACC practices at the Sadler Clinic in the Houston, Texas area. He was one of the first interventional cardiologists in the Houston area to use the transradial approach and has performed more than 1,000 transradial catheterizations.

Q: Has using transradial has been an advantage for you in your practice area, to differentiate you from other hospitals and practices. Do you find that patients are coming to you specifically because you do transradial?
Dr. Sanjay Patel: Obviously it was new for everyone, including the cath lab staff, the support nurses, the patients and the family. After we did a few cases, we had a patient story put out in a local newspaper. So that was a great head start. Everyone became more aware. The referring physicians got involved. I made some local presentations at the physician-to-physician level. I differentiated myself in the community because my doing transradial was a huge advantage for me in attracting the patient referrals -- because all my patients, they loved it! (Read entire interview...)

Also read the Angioplasty.Org Interview with: Sunil V. Rao, MD, FACC
		Dr. Rao is Assistant Prof.. of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center & Director of the Cardiac Cath Lab at the Durham (NC) VA Medical Center. He is a regular speaker at major cardiology meetings and has authored many articles on the subject of bleeding complications.

Jennifer Tremmel, MD
Dr. Tremmel is Director of Transradial Interventions at Stanford Medical Center and Clinical Director of Women's Heart Health at Stanford Clinic. Within 6 months of learning the radial technique , she was doing 100% radial, reducing complications from bleeding to near zero.

Mehrdad Saririan, MD
		Dr. Saririan is Director of the Cardiac Cath Lab at Maricopa Medical Ctr, the largest teaching hospital in the Phoenix area. A self-confessed radial evangelist, Saririan taught the technique to his chief and together they currently perform over 80% of their cases from the wrist..

Samir B. Pancholy MD, FACC, FSCAI
Dr. Pancholy is currently affiliated with Mercy Hospital & Comm. Medical Center in Scranton, PA, as well as several other nearby hospitals. He is considered an expert in the transradial approach and has conducted courses on the technique.

Tak W. Kwan MD, FACC, FACP
		Dr. Kwan is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NY and is also an NYU School of Medicine Senior Associate. He is Director of the Cardiac Cath Laboratory and Interventional Cardiology at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan.

Mauricio G. Cohen, MD, FACC
A native of Argentina, Dr. Cohen joined UNC School of Medicine in 2003 where he is Associate Director of the Catheterization Laboratories and Director of the UNC Healthy Heart Latino Initiative, providing health care services and outreach to the growing Latino community.

Shigeru Saito, MD
		Dr. Saito is one of the leading supporters and practitioners of transradial coronary intervention (TRI) in the world. He introduced the technique to Japan over a decade ago and has traveled the world to teach and demonstrate the benefits and techniques of this alternative approach.

Howard Cohen and Kirk Garratt
Drs . Cohen and Garratt are part of the interventional team at the Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute of New York and both use the transradial approach as their first choice for catheter access.

John T. Coppola, MD
		Dr. Coppola is recognized as an expert in performing transradial catheterization. He has presented this procedure to interventional cardiologists worldwide and regularly brings experts in the transradial technique to St. Vincent's in Manhattan for a special course.

R. Lee Jobe, MD
Dr. Jobe is Chairman of Invasive Cardiology at Wake Medical Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. He considers the radial artery approach to be his primary choice for catheter access to the coronary circulation when performing percutaneous procedures because of the benefits for both his patients and his practice.

Jeffrey J. Popma, MD
		Dr. Popma is the Director of the Cardiac Catherization laboratory at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Boston. A regular speaker at major cardiology meetings, he has published more than 280 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has served as president of the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (SCAI)

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