title: Radial artery angioplasty after perforation during diagnostic cardiac catheterisation.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Haemodynamic Laboratory, Cardiology Department, 401 General Army Hospital, Athens, Greece. imamarelis@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mamarelis
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kantounakis
authors.forename: Panagiotis
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kotileas
authors.forename: Panagiotis
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Takos
authors.forename: Theodoros
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Stefanopoulos
mesh_terms: 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