Ultrasound (US)-guided right femoral vein puncture was performed in all patients. The mapping catheter Pentaray (Biosense Webster, Diamond Bar, USA) was advanced into the right atrium through the ...

ICE plays two key roles during the procedure: (1) detecting the pericardium by advancing the ICE catheter through the femoral vein into the middle of the ... assisting with TS puncture by slightly ...

Although the term is sometimes used interchangeably with coronary angioplasty (involving only the heart), balloon angioplasty has come to describe any intervention of its sort performed percutaneously ...

Because the test uses blood obtained with an arterial puncture instead of blood drawn from a vein, there is a slightly higher risk ... If your pulse is weak due to severe illness or blood loss, the ...

Objective To determine the relationship between normal physiologic and pathologic venous sinus pressures in patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), which is poorly understood.

Blood was obtained without tourniquet by cubital venous puncture with a 19 G cannula and immediately ... administered at a flow rate of 2.5 mL/h via an ear vein. The left femoral artery was surgically ...

and the small saphenous vein (SSV). The GSV runs from the medial ankle to the groin, joining the common femoral vein at the saphenofemoral junction. The SSV runs from the lateral ankle to the ...

Spider veins, also known as telangiectasias or thread veins, resemble spider webs or tree branches. They occur when damage to blood vessels close to the skin's surface causes them to widen.

The real-time two-dimensional ultrasound technique involves visualization of the target vein to confirm patency ... 1.47), arterial puncture (odds ratio 0.32, 95% confidence interval 0.06, 1. ...

This outspoken state should, for the moment, be forgotten or regarded as an end-result, a thrombotic occlusion of the femoral and iliac veins. It carries a threat of many disagreeable aftereffects ...