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Radial and Brachial Access

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The radial artery approach is becoming an increasingly common access site for diagnostic and interventional coronary procedures. In the USA, the radial approach is used in <5 % of cases. Worldwide, radial artery access is utilized in ∼20 % of procedures (29 % if the USA is excluded)

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AS serves as a consultant to Terumo, Abiomed, St. Jude, and the Medicines Company and has received unrestricted educational grants from these companies as well as Cook Medical and Teleflex. MIV is a Consultant at Abiomed, St. Jude Medical, is on the Speakers’ Bureau at Eli Lilly and Dai Ichi Sankyo, AstraZeneca, Honoraria at Boston Scientific Corporation, Cordis Corporation, Terumo, and in Research Support at HCRI, DCRI, Tryton Medical, The Medicines Company.

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  1. Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, University of Illinois-Chicago, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, 840 South Wood Street, 9th Floor, MC 715, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA

    Adhir Shroff MD, MPH

  2. Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, University of Illinois – Chicago, 840 South Wood Street, Suite 935, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA

    Mladen I. Vidovich MD

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  1. Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital Loyola University Medical Center, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA

    Robert S. Dieter

  2. Northern Illinois Surgery Center, Naperville, Illinois, USA

    Raymond A. Dieter, Jr.

  3. University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

    Raymond A. Dieter, III

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Shroff, A., Vidovich, M.I. (2014). Radial and Brachial Access. In: Dieter, R., Dieter, Jr., R., Dieter, III, R. (eds) Endovascular Interventions. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7312-1_41

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