The Leipzig prospective vascular ultrasound registry in radial artery catheterization: impact of sheath size on vascular complications

摘要

Miniaturization in the sizes of catheters and sheaths has heralded a new era in the field of inter ventional cardiology. Although cardiac catheterization and percutaneous coronary intervention via .transradial approach was developed nearly two decades ago, widespread adoption of this approach has been rather limited [1,2]. However, with the demands from the patients for quicker ambulation, and from the payers, for faster discharge of patients following cardiac catheterization rejuvenated the transradial catheterization technique. Vascular access site complications lead to more bleeding, longer hospital stay and more need for blood transfusions. These complications are associated with worse adverse outcomes [3]. Although transradial