Radial versus femoral access for primary percutaneous coronary intervention: Is there a preferred route to the heart?

Heart

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 269-270

  Meier, Pascal ^a   Windecker, Stephan ^b   Lansky, Alexandra J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIRULOG;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA BALLOON; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84856225412     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2011-301225     Document Type: Editorial

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