title: Cerebroradial issue: Not so much.
abstract: Cerebral events are quite uncommon around the time of any cardiac catheterization procedure. No significant difference seen in cerebral events between radial and femoral approaches was evident in this large prospective registry. Still hard to find a reason not go radial. Go radial.
authors.affiliation: Verde Valley Medical Center, Cottonwood, AZ.
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Butman
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects*; D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005263:Femoral Artery; D006801:Humans; D062645:Percutaneous Coronary Intervention / Q000009:adverse effects*; D017534:Radial Artery; D012042:Registries; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology*