Optimizing vascular access: Routine femoral angiography keeps the vascular complication away. Editorial comment

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 203-204

  Turi, Zoltan G ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FEMORAL ANGIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFERIOR EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; LIMB ISCHEMIA; NOTE; RETROPERITONEAL HEMORRHAGE; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; COHORT STUDIES; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 20344379460     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.20412     Document Type: Note

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