Use of suture-mediated vascular closure devices for the management of femoral vein access after transcatheter procedures

Percutaneous suture-mediated closure of

Percutaneous suture-mediated closure of femoral access sites deployed through the procedure sheath: Initial clinical experience with a novel vascular closure device

✍ Holger Eggebrecht; Christoph Naber; Uta Woertgen; Sonia Ringe; Thomas F.M. Konor 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 240 KB

The objective of this study was to assess the initial safety and feasibility of a novel suture-mediated device for closure of femoral access sites immediately after diagnostic or interventional cardiac catheterization. In a prospective study, 150 patients (mean age, 61.5 years; 109 male) underwent f