HealthDay News — For patients who have undergone percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), routine follow-up coronary angiography (FUCAG) has no long-term clinical benefit, according to a study ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, A randomized evaluation of routine follow-up coronary angiography after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) found that there was no long-term clinical benefit compared to clinical ...

For optimal 1-year results, in patients with prior coronary artery bypass grafting who need percutaneous coronary ...

Adding intravascular imaging to coronary angiography may not only sharpen placement of coronary stents, as shown in many studies, it may also reduce in-hospital clinical risk and boost long-term ...

One in 4 patients undergoing elective coronary angiography in the United States is asymptomatic, according to a study published online August 25, 2014, ahead of print in JAMA: Internal Medicine.

For the first time, ESC Guidelines published today give the highest degree of recommendation for the radial approach over the femoral one for coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary ...

MIAMI, FL — Use of coronary angiography and PCI after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) increased significantly over a 13-year period, according to new research [1]. However, "a significant ...

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 ...

Patients with CKD had twice the risk of target vessel failure after PCI compared with patients without CKD. The benefits of intravascular imaging-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) extend ...

The instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) is an index used to assess the severity of coronary-artery stenosis. The index has been tested against fractional flow reserve (FFR) in small trials, and the ...