Radial Artery Calcification in Predicting Coronary Calcification and Atherosclerosis Burden

Table 5

Median values of the parameters involved in the performance of the radial punction (interquartile ranges).

Parameters	Radial calcinosis	No radial calcinosis	value
Time to find artery (minutes)	3 (2, 10)	2 (1, 5)	0.01
Number of attempts	2 (1, 3)	2 (1, 2)	0.09
Access time (minutes)	37 (20, 60)	35 (20, 50)	0.16
Artery occlusion
Absent	73	97	0.4
Present	4	2

Between the two groups, artery lumen patency at 48 h follow-up, documented by RUS examination, showed a numerically higher occlusion rate in the RC group, which was not statistically significant (5.19% vs. 2.02%, ).