December 13, 2011 (Rochester, Minnesota) — A large meta-analysis of 15 controlled studies shows that patients undergoing PCI at centers without on-site surgery capabilities are no more likely to die ...

January 28, 2010 (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) — Patients undergoing cardiac surgery subsequent to a coronary intervention during the same hospital admission have a much higher risk of acute kidney ...

Decision-making between percutaneous and surgical revascularization in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD) is challenging. Current guidelines recommend surgery as the preferred ...

PCI complications that require emergency surgery don’t occur frequently, but when they do—not surprisingly—they’re associated with worse outcomes, national data from England and Wales indicate. Of ...

Performance of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is usually restricted to hospitals with cardiac surgery on site. We conducted a noninferiority trial to compare the outcomes of PCI performed at ...