Vascular communications of the hand in patients being considered for transradial coronary angiography: Is the Allen's test accurate?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2013-2017

  Greenwood, Michael J ^a,b   Della Siega, Anthony J ^a   Fretz, Eric B ^a   Kinloch, David ^a   Klinke, Peter ^a   Mildenberger, Richard ^a   Williams, Malcolm B ^a   Hilton, David ^a  

^a Victoria Heart Institute Foundation   (Canada)

^b Gold Coast Heart Center   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL CIRCULATION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; THUMB; ULNAR ARTERY;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONSTRICTION; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIAL ARTERY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; THUMB; ULNAR ARTERY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 28244491505     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2005.07.058     Document Type: Article

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