Percutaneous Ulnar Artery Approach for Primary Coronary Angioplasty: Safety and Feasibility

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 56-59

  Limbruno, Ugo ^a   Rossini, Roberta ^a   De Carlo, Marco ^a   Amoroso, Giovanni ^a   Ciabatti, Nicola ^a   Petronio, Anna Sonia ^a   Micheli, Andrea ^a   Mariani, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Myocardial infarction; Radial access; Stents; Ulnar access

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FOREARM; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RECANALIZATION; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SURGICAL APPROACH; THROMBUS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; ULNAR ARTERY; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; HUMANS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULNAR ARTERY;

EID: 0347992843     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.10671     Document Type: Article

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