A Randomized Comparison of Transradial Versus Transfemoral Approach for Coronary Angiography and Angioplasty

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1047-1054

  Brueck, Martin ^a   Bandorski, Dirk ^a   Kramer, Wilfried ^a   Wieczorek, Marcus ^b   Höltgen, Reinhard ^b   Tillmanns, Harald ^c  

^a Clinic of Wetzlar   (Germany)

^b Evangelisches und Johanniter Klinikum Niederrhein   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

access site complications; coronary angiography; transfemoral approach; transradial approach

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; HEPARIN; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; PROTAMINE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY SPASM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THROMBOSIS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; VASCULAR ACCESS;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ANTICOAGULANTS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70449463004     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2009.07.016     Document Type: Article

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