transfemoral

Sometimes patients 'arteries can't handle such so-called transfemoral procedures, however.

Medtronic to Acquire Valve Makers 2009

However, even though approximately 6% of the general population are amputees -- not sure how many of those are transfemoral amputees, but still -- no health care worker thought of this in advance of dosing me up with a substance that ultimately made me -ahem- unwittingly lose control in a most unhygienic way, and for no genuinely logical reason when you consider where my staples were.

Disability, age, illness, medicos, society and biology Elizabeth McClung 2008

However, my limited experience running in my not-really-designed-for-it transfemoral suction socket tells me that even the Cheetah properly fit is probably neither as fun nor as efficient as running on an organic leg, no, not even with that big, bouncy spring foot.

Oscar Pistorius v. I.A.A.F: excluded for "purity" & "fairness" Elizabeth McClung 2007

Lacking originality today, I point you toward the excellent writing of Sara at Moving Right Along, who uses the meme "Five things feminism has given me" to explore being a woman with a transfemoral amputation in these modern times.

On feet and feminism Kay Olson 2006

As for the tag, well, first I have to finish my well-nigh monumental series on transfemoral amputee hill-walking, and then I have to respond to a tag by esteemed correspondent Ron Sullivan, who wants to know five weird things about me. snort So it might take me awhile to do it, but I will.

Meme stands for me me me me ME! Kay Olson 2006

Lacking originality today, I point you toward the excellent writing of Sara at Moving Right Along, who uses the meme "Five things feminism has given me" to explore being a woman with a transfemoral amputation in these modern times.

Archive 2006-11-01 Kay Olson 2006

In addition to the transapical procedure, the company has developed a transfemoral approach in which the valve is threaded to the heart via a catheter inserted at the groin.

Reuters: Press Release 2012

To explore the issue, Neill and his colleagues at Belfast City Hospital -- a high-volume tertiary cardiology center performing about 1,400 PCIs a year -- looked at fluoroscopy time and dose-area product (a measure of radiation dose delivered by the imaging system) during a transition from preferential transfemoral to transradial access.

MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2010

"Equipment designed for use in transfemoral cases is often inadequate because gaps may be present between the imaging field and the operator, allowing greater scatter exposure to staff."

MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2010

Transradial access is associated with fewer access site complications and increased patient satisfaction compared with transfemoral access.

MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2010