Vienna, Austria - A review of 30 controlled trials comparing the safety and efficacy of arterial-puncture closing devices (APCDs) with standard manual compression claims there is only marginal ...

In an analysis of the ISAR-CLOSURE trial, use of vascular closure devices was as safe and effective as manual compression for artery closure in women undergoing transfemoral angiography. Researchers ...

(UPDATED) For patients undergoing transradial coronary angiography, manual and mechanical compression of the puncture site result in similar rates of radial artery occlusion, although the time ...

Irish devicemaker Vasorum got FDA approval for its Celt ADC vascular closure device that is aimed at arterial puncture closure. The device is indicated for both diagnostic and anticoagulated ...

SHORTLY after Abeatici and Campi, 1 in 1951, introduced direct percutaneous splenic puncture as a method of performing splenoportal venography in dogs this became the standard roentgenographic method ...

Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2013;14(3):273-283. Ultrasonography may be used to supplement the landmark method. [53] Three different techniques have been described. The real-time two-dimensional ultrasound ...

Dear Dr. Roach: Nine days ago, I had a medical procedure under general anesthesia. One of the lines was put in the artery in my left wrist. Aside from deep bruising that went halfway up my forearm, it ...

It took a split second for a metal straw to puncture the artery in a 4-year-old boy’s neck, cutting off blood supply to part of his brain and leaving blood to gush from his mouth with every heartbeat.

A pseudoaneurysm (also called a false aneurysm) is a collection of blood and blood clot that has formed outside a blood vessel, usually after an injury. The collection is connected by a channel to the ...