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In the United States, more than one million cardiac catheterization procedures are performed each year for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
▪ Right heart catheterizations allow for direct measurement of right-sided cardiac and pulmonary hemodynamics while left heart catheterizations provide a diagnostic and therapeutic role in those with coronary artery disease.
▪ In 1989, Lucien Campeau proposed the use of a smaller caliber catheter to access the small radial artery as a way to reduce the rates of bleeding complications.
▪ Advantages of utilizing the transradial artery (TRA) approach over the transfemoral artery (TFA) approach include: – Improved patient quality-of life metrics. – Reduced major bleeding and access site complications. – Lower total hospital costs.
▪ Access-site complications including radial artery occlusion and arteriovenous fistula (AVF) formation from TRA are rare and usually of minimal clinical impact.
▪ AVF may present with pain and edema at the puncture site, a pulsatile thrill, and/or visible dilated superficial veins.
Publication Date
5-4-2023
Disciplines
Cardiology | Gastroenterology | Internal Medicine
Recommended Citation
Senger B, Eidy H, Gray A, Grodman R. A rare case of radial arteriovenous formation after transradial cardiac catheterization. Presented at Beaumont Hospital Farmington Hills 2023 Alvin Yarrows Research Day; 2023 May 4; Farmington Hills, MI.
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2023 Alvin Yarrows Research Day at Beaumont Hospital Farmington Hills, Farmington Hills, MI, May 4, 2023.