Common femoral artery antegrade and retrograde approaches have similar access site complications

Ipsilateral antegrade access (AA) is an alternative access option for contralateral retrograde access (RA) in treating infrainguinal occlusive disease. Our goal was to assess whether AA is associated with higher access site complications.

Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - December 4, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey J. Siracuse, Alik Farber, Thomas W. Cheng, Stephen J. Raulli, Douglas W. Jones, Jeffrey A. Kalish, Matthew R. Smeds, Denis Rybin, Marc L. Schermerhorn, Vascular Quality Initiative Tags: Clinical paper Source Type: research