Galyfos George, Sigala Fragiska, Filis Konstantinos
First Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, University of Athens Medical School, Hippocration Hospital, Athens, Greece.
First Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, University of Athens Medical School, Hippocration Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2018 Jun;19(4):457-465. doi: 10.1016/j.carrev.2017.09.015. Epub 2017 Sep 30.
Transradial (TR) access has been extensively compared to transfemoral (TF) access in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions, with TR method showing a clear benefit over the latter. However, comparative data concerning peripheral artery endovascular interventions has been limited in the literature. Therefore, a systematic review was conducted in order to compare main outcomes between TR and TF access in patients undergoing peripheral artery angioplasty and/or stenting. Main outcomes included technical success, major/minor bleeding risk, access site complications, hospital stay, death, myocardial infarction, neurological events and other procedural parameters. TR and TF access methods seem to be associated with similar early outcomes in patients undergoing non-coronary endovascular angioplasty and/or stenting although paucity of data necessitates the conduction of better designed studies.
