For 18 patients, the central point of femoral veins lay 5.3mm medial to the central point of the artery. Hypothetical success in catheterization of the other 18 patients was evaluated by assuming ...

Jugular vein catheters are thought to be less prone to infection than femoral vein catheters, but evidence from randomized trials has been lacking. Now, results of the Cathedia study in France ...

Overall complication rates were similar to those seen with transfemoral access, however, and patients liked it better.

Anthony A. Bavry, M.D., M.P.H. Intensive care unit patients who required acute renal replacement therapy were randomized to catheterization in the jugular vein (n = 375) or the femoral vein (n = 375).

For the past year and a half, two doctors with Tyler Cardiovascular Consultants under UT Health East Texas have been performing a procedure to help lower blood pressure in certain patients. It’s ...

During the TAVR procedure, a collapsible heart valve is placed into the body via catheter through a femoral artery in the groin (transfemoral approach) or through the chest (transapical approach).