Radial Access a Toss Up for Stroke Thrombectomy
PHOENIX — Transradial access for endovascular thrombectomy was noninferior to standard transfemoral access, a single-center randomized trial showed. The rate of recanalization success was 87.9% (51 of 58) with transfemoral access and 96.6% (56 of 58) with transradial access, with an adjusted risk difference of 3.3% and a lower bound of -5.0% that fell within […]
Fecal Transplants in Kidney Recipients Reduced Resistant Pathogens
In the single-center PREMIX clinical trial, most renal transplant recipients were negative for multidrug-resistant pathogens shortly after receiving fecal microbiota transplants (FMT), with longer times to recurrent infections. Eight of 10 participants who received a least one FMT, and eight of nine participants who received all FMT treatments were multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) negative by day […]