How to manage difficult anatomic conditions affecting transradial approach coronary procedures

Indian Heart Journal

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 238-244

  Burzotta, Francesco ^a   de Vita, Maria ^b   Trani, Carlo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b MORGAGNI PIERANTONI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ARCH ANOMALY; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTERY PUNCTURE; ARTERY SPASM; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; AXILLARY ARTERY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GUIDE WIRE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIAL ARTERY SPASM; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; TRANSRADIAL APPROACH; VASCULAR ACCESS; CATHETERIZATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PUNCTURE; THORACIC AORTA;

ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA, THORACIC; AXILLARY ARTERY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CORONARY DISEASE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PUNCTURES; RADIAL ARTERY; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY;

EID: 79952259042     PISSN: 00194832     EISSN: 00194832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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