CVD remains the leading cause of death in the United States, with CAD being the most common cause of death attributable to CVD. Rates of CAD have been on the rise in the United States in conjunction ...

Patients who have a higher number of complex anatomical characteristics—such as bifurcations, long stented length, and multivessel disease—have poorer 1-year outcomes post-PCI, data from the ...

Compared with other types of complex PCI, chronic total occlusion (CTO) PCI is less often associated with procedural success and carries a higher risk of complications such as coronary perforation and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Data from a retrospective analysis show there are significant differences in the types of complex high-risk PCI ...

The benefit of ticagrelor (Brilinta) monotherapy following a short course of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) was upheld in various high-risk populations undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention ...

A novel study shines a light on the physiological stress interventional cardiologists may encounter when performing complex percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures. The study of five ...

In patients at high bleeding risk who had undergone percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), 1 month of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) was associated with a similar rate of major adverse cardiac or ...