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 ...

That failure is especially dangerous during a STEMI — the most severe form of heart attack, caused by a complete blockage of a coronary artery. Survival depends on one procedure: percutaneous coronary ...

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 ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Black and Hispanic patients with STEMI were less likely ...

A new expert opinion from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) examines the evolving role of angiography-derived physiology (ADP), a wire-free method for coronary ...

Preprocedural vascular sheath insertion improved survival in high-risk PCI without increasing complications. Learn more about ...