TY - JOUR
T1 - Management of the access site after transradial percutaneous procedures: literature overview
AU - Coluccia, Valentina
AU - Burzotta, Francesco
AU - Trani, Carlo
AU - Brancati, Marta Francesca
AU - Niccoli, Giampaolo
AU - Leone, Antonio Maria
AU - Schiavoni, Giovanni
AU - Crea, Filippo
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The transradial approach (TRA) is emerging as a promising strategy to improve the safety of percutaneous coronary diagnostic or interventional procedures. Nevertheless, a series of specific complications related to the radial access have been described so that their prevention and optimal management is clinically relevant. In this article, the types of access-related vascular complications potentially occurring after TRA and their possible management are described. In particular, the vascular complications have been classified in three groups according to the main pathogenetic mechanism: thrombotic, hemorrhagic and nonthrombotic nonhemorrhagic. Moreover, a practical operative protocol for prompt diagnosis and treatment has been proposed.
AB - The transradial approach (TRA) is emerging as a promising strategy to improve the safety of percutaneous coronary diagnostic or interventional procedures. Nevertheless, a series of specific complications related to the radial access have been described so that their prevention and optimal management is clinically relevant. In this article, the types of access-related vascular complications potentially occurring after TRA and their possible management are described. In particular, the vascular complications have been classified in three groups according to the main pathogenetic mechanism: thrombotic, hemorrhagic and nonthrombotic nonhemorrhagic. Moreover, a practical operative protocol for prompt diagnosis and treatment has been proposed.
KW - transradial approach
KW - transradial approach
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/53547
U2 - 10.2459/JCM.0b013e3283577374
DO - 10.2459/JCM.0b013e3283577374
M3 - Article
SN - 1558-2035
VL - 14
SP - 705
EP - 713
JO - Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine
JF - Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine
ER -