Thrombosis of the ulnar artery can be a cause of significant morbidity. Most often a consequence of blunt trauma to the hypothenar eminence of the hand, it may be attributable to one traumatic event ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A smartphone heart rate-monitoring application was superior to a traditional physical exam for diagnosing ulnar ...

BACKGROUND: Radial artery access is commonly performed for coronary angiography and invasive hemodynamic monitoring. Despite limitations in diagnostic accuracy, the modified Allen test (manual ...

The anterior ulnar recurrent artery is a small blood vessel located in the forearm. The vessel emerges just below the joint of the elbow and between two muscles in the forearm. These muscles are known ...

A 5,000 IU dose of heparin is more effective than a very low dose in minimizing the risk of radial artery occlusion after transradial coronary angiography. When occlusions do occur, a simple ...

Mangaluru: A 60-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency department of KMC Hospital with complaints of severe chest pain, lasting for six hours, has been treated successfully. After a thorough ...

It’s time to revisit “best practices” for transradial procedures, say experts from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI). With 6 years of additional data to inform their ...

Humans are continuing to evolve -- in fact, they’re doing so at a faster rate than they have in at least 250 years. That’s the conclusion of scientists in Australia who found that more and more people ...

The recognition of ulnar artery thrombosis as a disease can be traced back to 1929 when Edgar Allen, [1] a fellow in medicine at the Mayo Clinic, described a diagnostic maneuver (Allen's test) to ...