Radial Artery Remodeling following Transradial Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Men and Women: Insights from Serial Ultrahigh Frequency Ultrasonography
Highlights
- • Substudy of the PRAGMATIC trial
- • Ultrahigh frequency duplex ultrasonography (UHFDU) used to depict the healing response in the radial artery following TRI-PCI
- • 20% reduction in RA diameter and a 20-25% increase in intimal-medial thickness was noted.
- • Only female gender predicted smaller RA diameters at baseline and follow-up.
- • UHFDU may inform future clinical investigation in this area
Abstract
Background
Remodeling of the radial artery (RA) after transradial percutaneous coronary intervention (TRI) is under studied.