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The transradial approach can reduce bleeding - the most common complication, particularly among women and the elderly - to under 1 percent.
Medindia Health News 2010
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Called transradial angiography, the approach might lead to reduced patient complications and recovery time and decreased hospital costs.
Medindia Health News 2010
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Illini Prosthetics team want to create and commercialize affordable, functional, comfortable and inexpensive transradial prosthetic arms, which are for people with amputations below the elbow (upper-arm prosthetics will follow eventually).
Scientific American 2010
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John Byess, 44, of Colerain Township underwent both the traditional angioplasty and the transradial approach at Good Samaritan after suffering two heart attacks in November.
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January 8th, 2010 WASHINGTON - For the first time, cardiologists at the University of Illinois and Jesse Brown VA medical centers have repaired an ailing heart by clearing blocked arteries via the wrist. alled transradial angiography, the approach might lead to reduced patient complications and recovery time and decreased hospital costs.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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Note that fluoroscopy time decreased with operator experience with the transradial approach, and that the single-center study was retrospective in design.
MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2010
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"Shielding equipment should be optimized for transradial access," the researchers wrote.
MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2010
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But some studies have suggested that radiation exposure for clinicians is greater with transradial access because clinicians are required to stand closer to the fluoroscope.
MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2010
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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
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Dr. Mazhari has completed more than 200 transradial cardiac angiography and angioplasty procedures.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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