Sheathless transulnar versus standard femoral arterial access for percutaneous coronary intervention on bifurcation lesions

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 398-400

  Deftereos, Spyridon ^a   Giannopoulos, Georgios ^a   Tousoulis, Dimitris ^b   Raisakis, Konstantinos ^a   Kaoukis, Andreas ^a   Kossyvakis, Charalambos ^a   Panagopoulou, Vasiliki ^a   Ntzouvara, Olga ^a   Mavrogianni, Aggeliki ^c   Michelakakis, Nikolaos ^a   Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^b   Pyrgakis, Vlasios ^a   Bobotis, Georgios ^c   Cleman, Michael W ^d   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^b  

^a G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c PAPAGEORGIOU GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^d YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Sheathless; Transradial; Transulnar

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; DOBUTAMINE; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY STENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVICE SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INJURY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEATHLESS TRANSULNAR ACCESS; TRANSFEMORAL ACCESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULNAR ARTERY; VASCULAR ACCESS;

EID: 79958166093     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2011.03.028     Document Type: Article

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