Transradial access as first choice for primary percutaneous coronary interventions: Experience from a tertiary hospital in athens

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 111-117

  Deftereos, Spyridon ^a   Giannopoulos, Georgios ^a   Raisakis, Konstantinos ^a   Kaoukis, Andreas ^a   Kossyvakis, Charalambos ^a   Pappas, Loukas ^a   Panagopoulou, Vasiliki ^a   Mavrogianni, Aggeliki Despoina ^b   Theodorakis, Andreas ^a   Perpinia, Anastasia ^a   Michelakakis, Nikolaos ^a   Bobotis, Georgios ^b   Pyrgakis, Vlasios ^a  

^a G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b PAPAGEORGIOU GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Complication; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Primary; Transfemoral; Transradial

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; EPTIFIBATIDE; HEPARIN; TIROFIBAN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY STENT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FALSE ANEURYSM; FASCIOTOMY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; GREECE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIATION DOSE; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT THROMBOSIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THROMBUS ASPIRATION; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TRANSRADIAL APPROACH; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955135654     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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