Marco Valgimigli, Andrea Gagnor, Paolo Calabró, Enrico Frigoli, Sergio Leonardi, Tiziana Zaro, Paolo Rubartelli, Carlo Briguori, Giuseppe Andò, Alessandra Repetto, Ugo Limbruno, Bernardo Cortese, Paolo Sganzerla, Alessandro Lupi, Mario Galli, Salvatore Colangelo, Salvatore Ierna, Arturo Ausiello, Patrizia Presbitero, Gennaro Sardella, Ferdinando Varbella, Giovanni Esposito, Andrea Santarelli, Simone Tresoldi, Marco Nazzaro, Antonio Zingarelli, Nicoletta de Cesare, Stefano Rigattieri, Paolo Tosi, Cataldo Palmieri, Salvatore Brugaletta, Sunil V Rao, Dik Heg, Martina Rothenbühler, Pascal Vranckx, Peter Jüni
BACKGROUND: It is unclear whether radial compared with femoral access improves outcomes in unselected patients with acute coronary syndromes undergoing invasive management. METHODS: We did a randomised, multicentre, superiority trial comparing transradial against transfemoral access in patients with acute coronary syndrome with or without ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction who were about to undergo coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention...
June 20, 2015: Lancet