Cardiac Catheterization on the Road Less Traveled. Navigating the Radial Versus Femoral Debate

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1055-1056

  Kern, Morton J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

angiography; coronary artery disease; vascular access

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; EDITORIAL; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; OBESITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70449463005     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2009.08.017     Document Type: Editorial

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