Feasibility and safety of left ventricular endomyocardial biopsy via transradial access: Technique and initial experience

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 761-765

  Schulz, Eberhard ^a   Jabs, Alexander ^a   Gori, Tommaso ^a   Hink, Ulrich ^a   Sotiriou, Efthymios ^a   Tschöpe, Carsten ^b   Schultheiss, Heinz Peter ^b   Münzel, Thomas ^a   Wenzel, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

cardiomyopathy; endomyocardial biopsy; transradial access

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY SPASM; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION INSTRUMENT; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GUIDING CATHETER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; J WIRE; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; SAFETY; TRANSRADIAL ACCESS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BIOPSY; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENDOCARDIUM; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SAFETY; PROCEDURES; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOCARDIUM; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; RADIAL ARTERY;

EID: 84941994535     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.25834     Document Type: Article

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