More than 300 hospitals participated in an ACC pilot program in which they voluntarily publicly report their rates of unplanned 30-day readmissions following a PCI procedure on Hospital Compare. The ...

Patients taken directly to a hospital that is able to treat heart attacks with percutaneous coronary intervention (or angioplasty) received treatments 31 minutes faster on average than patients who ...

(UPDATED) Intracoronary imaging to optimize outcomes continues to be used infrequently in the majority of US PCI procedures, but there is a surprising amount of variability at the individual physician ...

WASHINGTON, DC—Complex high-risk indicated PCI procedures (CHIP)—such as chronic total occlusions (CTOs) or calcified lesions—can be safely performed by fellows in training, according to new ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Registry data show transradial access was used for most patients who underwent complex, high-risk PCI.

NATICK, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Corindus Vascular Robotics, a leading developer of precision vascular robotics, announced today that the clinical trial of its CorPath® PRECISE (Percutaneous ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Registry data suggest single-operator PCI cases for chronic total occlusion had lower procedural and fluoroscopy ...

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ANN ARBOR, Michigan — The use of transradial PCI for the treatment of ST-segment elevation MI (STEMI) is on the rise in US clinical practice but still represents a very small percentage of overall PCI ...