Data from the ORBITA-2 randomized, placebo-controlled trial emphasize that patient age alone should not be the deciding factor for undergoing symptom-relieving therapies.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For patients with vulnerable plaque but no flow-limiting stenosis, PCI provided better clinical outcomes than ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . PCI was not cost-effective vs. optimal medical therapy alone in patients with CAD and HF. Intervention conferred ...

In-hospital mortality was significantly lower in patients aged 90 years or older treated with PCI compared with medical management.

Patients with left main coronary artery disease who present with ACS fare just as well when treated with PCI as they do with CABG surgery, according to results of a new study. While ACS patients had ...

With no difference in death or MI, Kevin Bainey says doctors can give medical therapy a good try before sending patients for ...

Researchers who studied a group of dialysis patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) found that one fifth of them received antithrombotic medications that were contraindicated or ...

By contrast, among patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, PCI has been shown to increase survival rates, 1,2 and among patients with non–ST-segment elevation myocardial ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT)-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) leads to a larger minimum stent area but does not reduce the two-year rate of target vessel failure compared with ...

Anticoagulation after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) does not prevent adverse outcomes in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), according to late breaking ...

October 9, 2012 (Boston, Massachusetts) — Acute-MI patients are less likely to undergo PCI in states requiring cath labs to publicly report their data than in states that do not, a new study shows [1] ...