Heart catheterization, a procedure to detect and clear clogged arteries, traditionally involves inserting a plastic tube through a groin incision into the femoral artery.

If you are experiencing chest pain, your doctor may recommend a cardiac catheterization (also known as a coronary angiogram) to get images of your heart and learn the cause.

Benjamin Brink/The Oregonian Theresa Chester, a cardiovascular technologist, preps George Bybee for a through-the-wrist heart catheterization procedure at Tuality Healthcare in Hillsboro.

About 25 percent of cardiac catheterization procedures at St. Vincent have been done through the wrist, he said, including 35 to 40 on high-risk patients.

An innovative approach to cardiac care, the cardiac catheterization procedure is performed through the radial artery, located in the wrist.

More than a million times a year, an interventional cardiologist snakes a narrow tube inside a patient's heart to examine its chambers and blood vessels. The minimally invasive procedure, used to ...

Just going back a few years, less than 5 percent of caths we're being done through the wrist artery," Mayhew said. Normally, heart catheterizations are done through the femoral artery in the groin.

Heart catheterization, a procedure to detect and clear clogged arteries, traditionally involves inserting a plastic tube through a groin incision into the femoral artery. But a new study shows fewe… ...