Sheathless transradial intervention highly successful in treating complex lesions
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
Cardiologists from the Mayo Clinic performed sheathless transradial percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to remedy complex lesions, achieving a 90% success rate with no radial complications. Standard guiding catheters were used during the procedure. Details of this novel approachovercoming the last hurdle to greater adoption of transradial PCI in the U.S.are published in the December issue of Catheterization and Cardiovascular Intervention, the official journal of The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions.