Radial versus femoral artery access in patients undergoing PCI for left main coronary artery disease: analysis from the EXCEL trial

EuroIntervention Journal

Read this EuroIntervention article by Shmuel Chen et al. on the procedural characteristics of transradial access (TRA) versus transfemoral access (TFA) in patients who were treated with PCI for left main coronary artery disease.

The EXCEL trial was a prospective, international, open-label, multi-centre trial that randomised 1,905 patients with LM disease and SYNTAX scores ≤32 to PCI with everolimus-eluting stents versus coronary artery bypass grafting. Find out more about the present analysis cohort.

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Authors

Shmuel Chen, Björn Redfors, Yangbo Liu, Ori Ben-Yehuda, Marie-Claude Morice, Martin B. Leon, David E. Kandzari, Roxana Mehran, Nicholas J. Lembo, Adrian P. Banning, Béla Merkely, Arie Pieter Kappetein, Joseph F. Sabik, Patrick W. Serruys, Gregg W. Stone