I had a chance to talk with Alan C. Yeung, MD, FACC of Stanford about the RESOLUTE US study just presented at the 60th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology (ACC). He was one of the principal investigators of this study, which was just sent to the FDA as the final component of Medtronic’s approval submission package. The company is hoping for U.S. approval in the first half of 2012. You can read the full interview on Angioplasty.Org.
Category Archives: Transradial Approach
RESOLUTE US: Interview with PI of Medtronic’s New Stent
Filed under ACC, Interviews, Transradial Approach
Will a Heart Stent from the Wrist RIVAL One from the Leg?
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
Filed under ACC, Clinical Trials / Studies, Interviews, Transradial Approach
Transradial Cath in Bakersfield
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. This latest TV report was broadcast Friday on KGET-TV, Channel 17 in Bakersfield, California. (Late update on August 5, 2013 – Unfortunately, KGET did not archive the broadcast, but you can read more about Bakersfield’s transradial program here .)
It’s a good report because it not only interviews Dr. Tommy Lee, the interventional cardiologist who has started doing radial caths (about 100 so far) because he feels it is safer, but it has a couple patients talking about their experience. Dr. Lee states in the broadcast that he believes radial is the future of cardiac catheterization: Continue reading
Filed under Media Coverage, Transradial Approach
Wrist Angioplasty Up-Close: New York Style
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 Interventional Cardiology Live Case Study Series from Mount Sinai Medical Center (these live cases are hosted on theheart.org— subscription required). Continue reading
Filed under Interviews, Meetings & Conferences, Transradial Approach
Philadelphia Transradial Intervention Program: Take a TRIP
Just a reminder to you interventional cardiologists, cath lab nurses and technologists who are interested in learning how to do angiograms, angioplasty and stents from the wrist — next Saturday, January 15, is SCAI’s second transradial program, being held in Philadelphia with an “all-star” faculty of transradial experts (see “Transradial Wrist Angioplasty Training Coast-to-Coast in January 2011“).
The first program in Boston sold out and this one is filling up fast. The TRIP course is being led by Program Co-chairs Kimberly Skelding, M.D., FSCAI and Samir B. Pancholy, M.D., FSCAI, and features “a dynamic mix of didactic lectures, case reviews and simulation training.” Continue reading
Filed under Meetings & Conferences, Transradial Approach
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