Overall complication rates were similar to those seen with transfemoral access, however, and patients liked it better.
Transradial access (TRA) results in a lower diagnostic success rate and longer procedural times compared with transfemoral access (TFA) in patients undergoing cerebral angiography, the randomized TRACE trial shows.
Successful selection of the supra-aortic vessels and acquisition of images of sufficient quality to make the basic diagnosis occurred in 91.0% of cases done via the radial artery and 95.8% done via the femoral artery, a difference that did not meet criteria for noninferiority, Wei Ni, MD (Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China), reported this week at the International Stroke Conference in Los Angeles, CA.
In the radial group, 16 cases failed at the stage of sheath…