femoral artery
- n the chief artery of the thigh; a continuation of the external iliac artery
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- Richard Donohue, Boston Marathon Survivor, Heads Home
The officer doesn't remember the April gun battle that left him with a severed femoral artery
June 14, 2013 - People Magazine - US Interventional Cardiologists Dramatically Increase Use Of Wrist Access
In the last six years interventional cardiologists have dramatically increased their use of a new technique to send catheters to the heart for their procedures, though still only a small percentage of procedures are performed using the new approach. Instead of puncturing a hole in the femoral artery in the groin and snaking a catheter to theheart they are using the much-smaller radial artery in ...
June 10, 2013 - Forbes - Unclogging heart arteries through wrist becoming more common
Opening clogged heart arteries via the radial artery in the wrist is becoming more common. The wrist route may have fewer complications than the traditional route through the femoral artery in the groin. Use of the procedure increased 13-fold in a six-year period.
June 10, 2013 - EurekAlert!