Acute kidney injury in patients with myocardial infarction undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention using radial versus femoral access

Table 2 Procedural characteristics

	Radial access N = 1377	Femoral access N = 2465	p
P2Y12, N (%)^b	1231 (89.4)	2284 (92.7)	0.001
PCI of the left main coronary artery, N (%)^b	23 (1.7)	96 (3.9)	< 0.0001
PCI of the left anterior descending artery, N (%)^b	517 (37.5)	1039 (42.2)	0.006
PCI of the circumflex artery, N (%)^b	337 (24.5)	520 (21.1)	0.017
PCI of the right coronary artery, N (%)^b	390 (28.3)	784 (31.8)	0.026
Multivessel PCI, N (%)^b	198 (14.4)	381 (15.5)	0.40
Conservative treatment, N (%)^b	67 (4.9)	92 (3.7)	0.09
TIMI flow 0/1 after PCI, N (%)^b	78 (5.1)	125 (5.1)	0.45
Contrast volume, ml^c	171.0 (125.0, 231.0)	150.0 (110.0, 204.0)	< 0.0001
Contrast volume/GFR ratio^a	2.45 (1.55)	2.33 (1.80)	0.045
BARC 3a bleeding, N (%)^b	43 (3.1)	195 (7.5)	< 0.0001

^aMean (standard deviation); comparison made using the t-test.; ^bComparison made using the chi-square test; ^cMedian (25th, 75th percentile); comparison made using the Mann-Whitney test
BARC Bleeding Academic Research Consortium, N number, PCI percutaneous coronary intervention, P2Y12 P2Y12 receptor antagonists, TIMI flow TIMI grade flow after PCI = 0/1

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