Radial access for primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: time for a paradigm shift?

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Robert J Applegate. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014.

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. 2014 Mar 18;63(10):973-5.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.09.066. Epub 2013 Nov 21.

¹ Section of Cardiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Electronic address: bapplega@wakehealth.edu.

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Keywords: acute coronary syndrome(s); femoral access; percutaneous coronary intervention; procedural volume; radial access.

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