Radial artery occlusion: still the Achille's heel of transradial approach or is it?

Abstract

In this editorial we comment a prospective study Markovic et al. (369 patients) about vascular complications associated with transradial catheterization and compare these results with another three similar studies - Pancholy et al. (436 patients), Uhlemann et al. (455 patients) and Bernat et al. (465 patients).

Keywords

• Transradial catheterization
• radial artery occlusion
• anticoagulation