Transulnar compared with transradial artery approach as a default strategy for coronary procedures: A randomized trial: The transulnar or transradial instead of coronary transfemoral angiographies study (the AURA of ARTEMIS study)

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 252-261

  Hahalis, George ^a   Tsigkas, Grigorios ^a   Xanthopoulou, Ioanna ^a   Deftereos, Spyridon ^b   Ziakas, Antonios ^c   Raisakis, Konstantinos ^b   Pappas, Christos ^d   Sourgounis, Aggelos ^e   Grapsas, Nikos ^a   Davlouros, Periklis ^a   Galati, Anastasia ^a   Plakomyti, Theodora Eleni ^a   Mylona, Panagiota ^a   Styliadis, Ioannis ^c   Pyrgakis, Vlassis ^b   Alexopoulos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^d NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e 424 General Army Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Catheterization; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Transradial approach; Transulnar approach

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; ULNAR ARTERY;

CATHETERIZATION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; TRANSRADIAL APPROACH; TRANSULNAR APPROACH;

AGED; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; EARLY TERMINATION OF CLINICAL TRIALS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIAL ARTERY; TIME FACTORS; ULNAR ARTERY;

EID: 84884496054     PISSN: 19417640     EISSN: 19417632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.112.000150     Document Type: Article

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