Remaining challenges and opportunities for improvement in percutaneous transradial coronary procedures

European Heart Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Rao, Sunil V ^a   Bernat, Ivo ^b   Bertrand, Olivier F ^c  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Outcomes; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Transradial

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULATION; APPLICATION SITE BLEEDING; ARTERIOTOMY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CORONARY REPERFUSION; FLUOROSCOPY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TRANSRADIAL PRIMARY PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; VASCULAR ACCESS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLEEDING; INJURY; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; TIME TO TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RISK FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867706369     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehs169     Document Type: Review

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