FYI.....just a little bit of experience here! My husband is a heart transplant recipient, three years out. He gets annual full heart physicals at OSU, Ross Heart Hospital. This year, they did the heart cath through his wrist. Some doctors, not all, are now doing stents through the wrist as well. This procedure is so much easier, instead of waiting for the groin to close for hours, it cuts that time by 2/3, far less invasive and heals much quicker.
This year, they did the heart cath through his wrist
...that’s actually quite rare, and even if the decision is through the wrist, the groin area is prepared as well, as the passage to the heart is more direct...
...my stent was deployed six years ago, to open the posterolateral artery which had completely blocked...needlessly I thought, I had to spend a night in the cardiac unit, where they come in every hour on the hour to draw blood, and then say in the morning, ‘Did you get any sleep?’...heh, hospital humor...
My daughter-in-law, who passed away a year ago June at a young age was also a heart-transplant patient at OSU Ross Heart Hospital. Three years after receiving the transplant, her body for some reason rejected it. She was admitted back into the hospital, the doctors were stumped, and she never got to come home again. She suffered 4 heart attacks the morning of her death which she survived, but the 4th one took her.