The MATRIX score, an eight-item checklist that includes readily available patient characteristics and also factors in operator expertise, helps predict which ACS patients will require crossover from ...

December 8, 2009 (Chicago, Illinois) — Data from a national US registry indicates that one out of five dialysis patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in recent years received ...

CAMP PCI was developed to respond to this need to treat patients with coronary artery disease and heart failure, and to address the need for continuous improvement in contemporary PCI techniques and ...

DURHAM, NC – A nationwide analysis of PCI suggests there is wide variability in the practice of blood transfusions and that patients who received blood transfusions fared significantly worse following ...

A recent study found chronic kidney disease (CKD) to be an independent risk factor for incident heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

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) ...

Older patients with stable ischemic heart disease (SIHD) who undergo complex PCI are at higher risk of all-cause death by 1 year than are those who undergo noncomplex PCI, according to new ...

In patients undergoing chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), stenting demonstrated improved long-term survival and fewer cardiac arrests at one year. The ...