At Angioplasty.Org, we are about to mark the fourth anniversary of our Transradial Access Center, where we have been evangelizing an approach used around the world for catheter-based diagnostic and interventional procedures: using the radial artery in the wrist for catheterizations and PCI (angioplasty and stents) instead of the femoral artery in the leg. It’s an approach that is used 50% or more of the time in other countries, but is still in the single digits (pun intended) here in the United States. You can read why the U.S. has been behind the curve in our many articles on the subject of the transradial approach.
But all this soon may be changing, if the results of an important study, being presented at this year’s American College of Cardiology meeting, support the investigators’ hypothesis: Continue reading
I’m always keeping an eye on the growing number of news stories about a “revolutionary new way to open the coronary arteries”: the transradial approach, that is, where the radial artery in the wrist is used as the entry point for catheters, angioplasty balloons and stents. 
Okay. Now that I have your attention…. Sure, we all know that smoking significantly increases the risk of having a heart attack…but sex? Well a study, published in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) looks at this topic, in an article titled, “
I just wanted to share a patient’s posting from earlier today on Angioplasty.Org’s Patient Forum Topic titled, “
For physicians (and others) who are interested in seeing an advanced PCI case using the transradial or wrist approach, tune in tomorrow morning at 8:00am to this month’s 
Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) has made its yearly 
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