Restick following initial Angioseal use

Robert J Applegate1, Kevin M Rankin, William C Little

  • 1Section of Cardiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA. bapplega@wfubmc.edu

The Angioseal hemostatic device is currently in widespread use for arterial closure after both diagnostic and interventional procedures. Resticking of the artery in which an Angioseal device has been placed has been discouraged for up to 90 days after the initial device placement because of theoretical concerns of disruption or dislodgment of the hemostatic plug. However, no data are available to address this concern. We evaluated the incidence of vascular complications following restick of the artery in which an Angioseal device had been deployed