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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Black and Hispanic patients with STEMI were less likely ...

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

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 ...