Pseudoaneurysm with median nerve injury caused by right radial artery puncture: Study

Beijing, Jan. 24 -- : A team of researchers from China considers a pseudoaneurysm with median nerve injury caused by right radial artery puncture.

Pseudoaneurysm with median nerve injury is a serious complication of radial artery puncture.

The study, published in a new publication from Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, is led by Yachao Li, Zengming Xue, He Ma, Wei Zhang, Shaoping Nie and Changsheng Ma from the People's Hospital of Langfang City, Hebei, China and Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.

In this case report, the authors discuss the case of a 66-year-old woman admitted to hospital with ''paroxysmal chest tightness and suffocation for 5 days."

Coronary angiography was performed on the ...