Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a safe and effective procedure to reconstitute myocardial perfusion and has been demonstrated to improve prognosis in patients with acute coronary syndrome. With advancing age, PCI carries a higher risk for acute coronary and other vascular complications. Periprocedural mortality risk after PCI demonstrates a curvilinear relationship with age, with th...

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) of Chronic Total Occlusions (CTO) is an accepted revascularization procedure. These complex procedures carry with them certain risks and potential complications. Complications of PCI such as contrast induced renal dysfunction, radiation, etc, assume more relevance given the length and complexity of these procedures. Further, certain complications such as...

Primary angioplasty offers benefits as compared with fibrinolysis for many patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).1 This superiority of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in trials has led to the investigation of transfer strategies that would make PCI more widely available. Such a strategy would regionalize care and divert patients with STEMI to centers with PCI c...

BACKGROUND Patients with multivessel coronary disease treated with coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) have less angina than those treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI); however, there is uncertainty as to the mechanism of greater angina relief with CABG and whether more frequent repeat revascularization in patients treated with PCI could account for this treatment difference. ...

Here, we present a case of 56-year-old man with acute myocardial infarction. The patient underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) at the left main bifurcation and mid-left anterior descending artery using drugeluting stents. Four months after PCI, was readmitted for cardiac arrest. Coronary angiography (CAG) revealed stent thrombosis in main-toproximal in-stent restenosis circumflex a...

AIM This study identified the factors associated with depression in patients diagnosed with myocardial infarction (MI) who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). METHODS We searched the literature using PubMed and CINAHL from their inception in 1946 to December 2014. The search terms were "myocardial infarction," "depression," and "percutaneous coronary intervention." Studies whi...

The aim of this study was to investigate the safety and efficacy biodegradable-polymer sirolimus-eluting stents (BP-SES) compared with durable-polymer everolimus-eluting (DP-EES) in patients ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is an effective treatment for STEMI, long-term outcomes are determined by profile newest generation drug-...

BACKGROUND Radial access for percutaneous coronary intervention (r-PCI) is associated with reduced vascular complications; however, previous reports have shown that <2% of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures in the United States are performed via the radial approach. Our aims were to evaluate temporal trends in r-PCI and compare procedural outcomes between r-PCI and transfemoral...

Cardiac tamponade is an uncommon but life-threatening complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The purpose of the present study was to characterize the incidence, management, and clinical outcome associated with this complication. We analyzed a prospective database of 25,697 PCIs performed at William Beaumont Hospital (Royal Oak, Michigan) between October 1993 and December 2000...