Advanced vascular access skills are an essential component of all critical care specialty curricula. However, common femoral artery (CFA) cannulation and sheath insertion has thus far not been ...

Covid-19 seems to accelerate the ageing of blood vessels, but perhaps only among women. The infection has previously been linked to cardiovascular complications, like heart disease, but how it has ...

Researchers discovered that Covid accelerates blood vessel aging by about five years, especially in women. Even mild infections increased arterial stiffness, with vaccinated individuals showing less ...

– The choice of vascular access can influence the outcome of below the knee angioplasty. – We identified no trials that compared retrograde distal access with femoral access for below the knee ...

Femoral neuropathy, also called femoral nerve dysfunction, is one possible cause of movement and sensation problems in the legs. Femoral neuropathy occurs when something affects the femoral nerve, ...

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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Surmodics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRDX), a leading provider of medical device and in vitro diagnostic technologies to the health care industry, today announced the ...

Correspondence to Dr Kazim H Narsinh, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; kazim.narsinh{at}ucsf.edu Although ...

The femoral artery is one of the major blood vessels in your body. It carries blood to the lower half of your body. Blood circulation is an essential function since the tissues in your body need the ...

Radial artery access for coronary angiography or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) reduces the risk of death, bleeding, and vascular complications and is preferred over femoral artery access, ...

A femoral endarterectomy is a surgical procedure to remove fatty deposits from the femoral artery in the groin. This artery supplies the lower body with oxygen-rich blood. The femoral artery is a ...

PHOENIX, AZ—Among patients with acute ischemic stroke, going through the radial artery for mechanical thrombectomy is noninferior to using transfemoral access when it comes to recanalization and has ...