A Single-Center Experience with Manual Compression Following Femoral Artery Puncture for Digital Subtraction Angiogram of the Brain and Spine at Punjab Institute of Neurosciences Lahore

Catheter-based cerebral and spinal Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) is the preferred imaging method for cerebrovascular diseases. It is yet unknown how manual compression helps patients undergoing transfemoral cerebral and spinal angiography achieve hemostasis. The safety of manual compression and complications among 658 patients who had cerebral and spinal catheter angiography for therapeutic and diagnostic reasons at a public hospital are reviewed in the current research.