Transradial interventions: our experience.

Traditional coronary angiography and angioplasty are usually performed via femoral approach. Though this route provides an easier vascular access, it is associated with a smaller but potentially serious incidence of vascular complications at the puncture site that may result in significant groin haematoma, blood transfusion or require surgical repair. A useful and safe alternative approach is through the transradial access. This route has a very low rate of vascular complications and also allows early mobilization of patients. Though this approach is less commonly used all over the world, recently the usage of this technique has improved. Currently we as a team of Heart Care Clinic are performing more than 90% of the procedure via transradial route. We have performed thousands of angiographies and angioplasties by this route in past several years. Here we performed an analysis of our experience with transradial angiography and angioplasty, demonstrating this to be a safe and effective technique suitable for most of the patients.