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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:1702-1703
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Original Articles: Cardiovascular

Invited Commentary

Alistair George Royse, FRACS, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, PO Box 2135, Parkville, Victoria 3052, 3050, Australia

(Email: alistair.royse@mh.org.au).

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The article by Madssen and colleagues [1] examines a most important question. Cardiologists and interventional radiologists seek to reduce the morbidity of femoral arterial puncture and possibly to reduce the dislodgement of aortic arch atheroma during their procedures by cannulating the radial artery prior to coronary angiography or other procedures. After all, the radial artery is easily accessible, and allows for simple compression bandaging and rapid mobilization of the patient. The question is whether this may compromise subsequent use of the same radial artery as a conduit for coronary artery bypass surgery.

In this study these authors found that at 1 year post-angiography, the right radial artery which was cannulated was significantly smaller than the noncannulated . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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