• The incidence of no-reflow was significantly higher in the thrombectomy group (1.4% vs 0.2%), which researchers attributed ...

Time is of the essence for STEMI patients undergoing multivessel PCI, a new meta-analysis suggests. In select patients, treating the culprit and nonculprit lesions all at once—at the time of the index ...

Hudson Regional Hospital announced Jan. 9 that its Cardiac Catheterization Lab earned New State Department of Health approval for a diagnostic tool used to identify and treat patients with chest pain.

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.—Collecting an accurate medical history can predict adherence to dual antiplatelet therapy, and could therefore inform decisions regarding BMS vs. DES use in patients with STEMI, ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- A new protocol used to transfer heart attack patients via helicopter from the General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital has safely and significantly reduced overall ...

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Patients with STEMI and multivessel disease who underwent a single-procedure multivessel PCI had improved outcomes compared with those who underwent culprit-only PCI, according to a meta-analysis ...