Transradial cardiac interventions in Yemeni patients , A local Experience from Hadhramout

Document Type : Abstracts

Abstract

Accessing the coronary arteries from the upper limbs
is not a recent concept. The first cardiac angiography
was performed utilizing the brachial vein in 1929.
Although the first transradial coronary stenting was
1993. Nowadays this route is gaining popularity in
the field of interventional cardiology.