Trends In The Prevalence And In-Hospital Outcomes Of Radial Versus Femoral Access In Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Report With 158,363 Patients From The Brazilian Nationwide Pci Registry (Cenic)

The benefit of radial access (RA) compared with femoral access (FA) in reducing vascular complications, access-site, bleeding and adverse cardiac events is already well established, especially in the setting of acute coronary syndromes, and has become recommended access route in this context by