In patients with non–flow-limiting vulnerable plaques, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) plus optimal medical therapy reduced the risk for adverse cardiac events and death compared with optimal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . IVUS-guided PCI reduced risk for target vessel failure for patients with ACS vs. angiography-guided PCI. Lower ...

An increase in the number of percutaneous coronary interventions does not appear to have resulted in reduced mortality rates, ...

For cardiac arrest patients who subsequently undergo PCI, their degree of consciousness before the procedure is a strong predictor of in-hospital outcomes, according to observational data from ...

People with a buildup of fatty atherosclerotic plaque in the heart's arteries considered at risk of rupturing were far less likely to suffer a serious cardiac event if they underwent percutaneous ...

Of note, both revascularization techniques can aggravate renal insufficiency through different mechanisms of renal injury (i.e., contrast-induced nephropathy vs bypass machine and/or hemodynamic ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides safe and improved guidance for patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention to treat coronary artery disease, according to results from the ...

The benefit of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with stable coronary artery disease and severe aortic stenosis who are undergoing transcatheter aortic-valve implantation (TAVI) ...

ATLANTA -- In select patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute coronary syndromes who were event-free for 1 month on dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), treatment with ...