Operators safely shaved a few minutes off heart attack reperfusion times by taking patients straight to culprit lesion percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) when they arrived at the catheterization ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NEW ORLEANS — Patients who presented to the hospital after experiencing an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and ...

ATLANTA, GA, (May 18, 2022) – New findings from the Ascension Health System’s internal National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) analyzing rates of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ...

ATLANTA -- The use of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute coronary syndromes resulted in better outcomes compared with ...

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Physiological assessment with fractional flow reserve (FFR) is no better than angiography when it comes to guiding complete revascularization in STEMI patients with multivessel disease who’ve ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ATLANTA — The monthly rate of PCI for STEMI dropped steadily at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and has yet ...

In patients with STEMI and multivessel disease, PCI for nonculprit lesions is superior to treatment of the culprit lesion alone. Whether an FFR-guided approach results in better clinical outcomes than ...

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is increasingly used for revascularization of unprotected left main coronary artery disease. Whether intravascular ultrasonographic (IVUS) guidance during ...

May 11, 2009 (Las Vegas, Nevada) — A unique strategy of "repatriating" stable STEMI patients back to their referring hospitals post-PCI has no downside in terms of mortality, a Canadian study has ...

In patients who had a coronary stent inserted after experiencing the most severe type of heart attack, the use of a technique that measures blood flow and pressure through a partially blocked artery ...