No Difference in 30-Day Outcome and Quality of Life in Transradial Versus Transfemoral Access – Results From the German Austrian ABSORB Registry (GABI-R)
Abstract
Background
Radial (RA) instead of femoral access (FA) for coronary interventions has become a European Society of Cardiology Class-IA guideline recommendation. But when the decision on the access site is left to the discretion of the operator, differences in adverse event rates mitigate.