Ulnar Artery Access in Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
In the largest series to date, ulnar access was used in 0.8% of CTO PCI with similar outcomes to radial and femoral access. Given its use in lower complexity cases, these findings are hypothesis-generating and warrant prospective evaluation.
Authors
- Sant Kumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5294-3682)
- Paul Poommipanit (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0168-5315)
- Farouc A. Jaffer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7980-384X)
- Konstantinos Voudris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6464-293X)
- Ahmed ElGuindy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3598-8413)
- Oleg V. Krestyaninov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5214-8996)
- Dimitrios Strepkos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6623-1715)
- Khaldoon Alaswad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1368-5320)
- Jaikirshan Khatri
- Emmanouil S Brilakis
- M A Basir
- Nidal Abi Rafeh
- Dimitrii Khelimskii
- Sevket Gorgulu
- Bavana V. Rangan
- Pedro E. P. Carvalho
- M. Nicholas Burke
- Laura Young
- Olga Mastrodemos
- Yader Sandoval
- Michaella Alexandrou
- Omer Goktekin
Institutions
- Creighton University (US)
- Ford Motor Company (United States) (US)
- Cleveland Clinic (US)
- Abbott Northwestern Hospital (US)
- University Hospitals of Cleveland (US)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- North Oaks Health System (US)
- Biruni University (TR)
- Memorial Sisli Hospital (TR)
- Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation (US)
- Meshalkin National Medical Research Center (RU)
- Case Western Reserve University (US)
- Aswan University (EG)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
- Published
- 2026-01-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ccd.70459
- Primary Topic
- Vascular Procedures and Complications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00