Pierleone Lucatelli, Fabrizio Fanelli, Alessandro Cannavale, Mario Corona, Carlo Cirelli, Alessandro D'Adamo, Filippo M Salvatori, Carlo Catalano
BACKGROUND: The aim of this paper was to compare the use of two different commercially available vascular closure devices (VCD), Angioseal VIP® (St. Jude Medical, St. Paul, MN, USA) and StarClose SE (Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL, USA). METHODS: From January 2010 to January 2012, 347 patient underwent retrograde femoral arterial puncture for different interventional procedures (angioplasty, stenting, embolization for bleeding, fibrinolysis for ischemia and chemoembolization)...
February 2017: Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery