Radial artery occlusion: Still the Achille's heel of transradial approach or is it?

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 97-98

  Bertrand, Olivier F ^a   Bernat, Ivo ^b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ARTERY OCCLUSION; COMPRESSION INSTRUMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; OXIMETRY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ULNAR ARTERY; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMORRHAGE; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROCEDURES; RADIAL ARTERY;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RADIAL ARTERY;

EID: 84922983133     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: 14735830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCA.0000000000000229     Document Type: Editorial

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