Radial artery angioplasty after perforation during diagnostic cardiac catheterisation.
The use of the radial artery as an access site for diagnostic and interventional cardiac procedures has been extensively developed in recent years as a result of reduced complications at puncture site, reduced costs and the improvement in the patients' quality of life. The complications of trans-radial procedures are rarely major and very rarely life threatening--a key benefit of the radial approach. We describe the case of a patient who underwent percutaneous radial artery angioplasty, because of perforation caused during diagnostic cardiac catheterisation, in order to complete the catheterisation procedure before the patient proceeded to endovascular treatment of a sub-renal abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Mamarelis
Ioannis
I
Haemodynamic Laboratory, Cardiology Department, 401 General Army Hospital, Athens, Greece. imamarelis@gmail.com
Kantounakis
Ioannis
I
Kotileas
Panagiotis
P
Takos
Panagiotis
P
Stefanopoulos
Theodoros
T
D000368:Aged; D017130:Angioplasty / Q000379:methods*; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000175:diagnosis; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D017534:Radial Artery / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery*; D015607:Stents