Barriers for transradial coronary angiography and interventions in 2016

Dr. Lucien Campeau reported the first transradial angiography in 1989 followed by Drs. Kiemeneij and Laarman (1992) who performed the first transradial coronary stenting in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. But since then the acceptance rates of TRC has varied considerably and is hugely influenced by the operator and demography of a particular lab - academic training centers have a significantly higher TRC implementation rates compared to community hospitals. In the past few years there has impressive growth of TRC in the US – from less than 3% (2007) to 16% (2012) to current ~36% (2016) of all cardiac catheterization nationwide in the US according to the Cath- PCI National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR), with wide variation among hospitals (Fig.

Source: Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine - November 8, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Sumit Som, Ankitkumar K Patel, Virender Sethi, Haroon Faraz, Irfan Admani, Atish Mathur, Joseph E. Parrillo, Pranaychandra Vaidya Source Type: research