Central Vascular Complications Following Elective Catheterization Using Transradial Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

• Main Authors: Julia Merkle MD (Author), Christopher Hohmann MD (Author), Anton Sabashnikov MD, PhD (Author), Thorsten Wahlers MD, PhD (Author), Jens Wippermann MD, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Percutaneous coronary intervention is commonly used to treat coronary artery disease. Both transradial and transfemoral approaches are applied. In general, fewer complications are seen with the transradial approach compared to the transfemoral access, for which reason the transradial catheterization...