Radial Versus Femoral Access for Coronary Interventions Across the Entire Spectrum of Patients With Coronary Artery Disease: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 9, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 1419-1434

  Ferrante, Giuseppe ^a   Rao, Sunil V ^b   Jüni, Peter ^c   Da Costa, Bruno R ^d   Reimers, Bernhard ^a   Condorelli, Gianluigi ^a,e   Anzuini, Angelo ^f   Jolly, Sanjit S ^g   Bertrand, Olivier F ^h   Krucoff, Mitchell W ^b   Windecker, Stephan ⁱ   Valgimigli, Marco ⁱ  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e HUMANITAS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^f Humanitas Mater Domini ^*  (Italy)

^g MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁱ BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

bleeding; femoral access; percutaneous coronary intervention; radial access; vascular complications

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EMBASE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MEDLINE; MORTALITY RISK; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; NUMBERS NEEDED TO TREAT; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RADIAL ARTERY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR DISEASE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CATHETERIZATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMORRHAGE; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RADIAL ARTERY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84978536272     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: 18767605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2016.04.014     Document Type: Article

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