Medscape

PCI With Newer Stents May Be as Safe as CABG in Diabetes

NEW YORK, NY — For diabetic patients with blocked coronary arteries, angioplasty performed using a second-generation drug-eluting stent (DES) results in survival similar to surgery, an ...
TCTMD

One Month of Dual Antithrombotic Therapy May Be Enough After PCI in AF Patients

NEW ORLEANS, LA—Among patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) undergoing PCI, 1 month of dual therapy with a direct oral ...

Effectiveness of Anti-clotting Meds After Stent Placement Varied in People With Diabetes

Two P2Y12 inhibitors often used interchangeably, ticagrelor and prasugrel (antiplatelet medications prescribed to prevent the ...

Drug-eluting balloon may be as safe, effective as conventional stents for repeat percutaneous coronary interventions

A new drug-eluting balloon can perform just as well as the standard treatment for patients with coronary in-stent restenosis ...
TCTMD

Stent Thrombosis During PCI Rare but Serious Phenomenon

Intraprocedural stent thrombosis is a relatively rare complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS), occurring less than 1% of of the time, ...
Medscape

OPTIMIST: Outcomes bleak following PCI for stent thrombosis

Vienna, Austria - One of the largest studies to date looking at the impact of stent thrombosis and its treatment suggests that once thrombosis occurs, it matters very little whether the culprit was a ...

PCI with a sirolimus-eluting balloon and provisional stenting shows promise for treatment of de novo coronary lesion

New study results from a large international all-comer population of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) candidates ...
clinicaladvisor.com

PCI with paclitaxel-eluting stent might be alternative to CABG

In patients with three-vessel and/or left main coronary artery disease (CAD), percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with paclitaxel-eluting stents is equivalent to coronary artery bypass grafting ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

PCI With Everolimus-Eluting Stents Linked to More CV Events

(HealthDay News) — For patients with multivessel coronary artery disease, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with everolimus-eluting stents is linked to increased cardiovascular events vs.
The American Journal of Managed Care

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Assessing Coronary Vascular Risk Associated With Bare-Metal and Drug-Eluting Stents

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with stenting is increasingly being utilized for acute coronary syndromes (ACS), and the debate over the safety and efficacy of drug-eluting stents (DESs) ...
Healio

Success, event rates similar after PCI for in-stent, de novo CTO

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . PCI for in-stent chronic total occlusion had similar success rates and in-hospital complications compared with ...
clinicaladvisor.com

PCI with paclitaxel-eluting stent might be alternative to CABG

In patients with three-vessel and/or left main coronary artery disease (CAD), percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with paclitaxel-eluting stents is equivalent to coronary artery bypass grafting ...