Cardiology & Vascular Research
- ISSN: 2577-655X
Marek M. Rogowski, Christian Attenberger, Christian Eichhorn, Matthias Frick and Kaffer Kara
Radial artery occlusion remains the most common complication of the transradial coronary interventions, occurring in up to 15% of cases. Whereas both symptomatic and asymptomatic scenarios have been identified, only symptomatic cases are treated routinely in the clinical practice. Among many predictors for radial occlusion, diabetes was found to be associated with this complication. In the current study, 285 diabetes and non-diabetes patients with myocardial infarction (both STEMI and NSTEMI), were analyzed retrospectively. Radial artery occlusion occurred in 12 cases (2.5%). Logistic regression showed no statistically significant difference in RAO presence in the diabetes and non-diabetes group (OR 0.569; 95% CI, 0.176 to 1.836). This result may be, however, underestimated due to a limited number of patients and merits further investigation.