Or percutaneous coronary intervention can be done in the acute setting when you have a heart attack. Percutaneous means that you're going through the skin, with a tube usually from the groin area.

The use of the radial access site for PCI has surged in the US and offers better clinical outcomes than the femoral site, but ...

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It’s important for clinicians to assess patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for both anemia and chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Smith, SC Jr, Dove, JT, Jacobs, AK, et al. ACC/AHA guidelines for percutaneous coronary intervention (revision of the 1993 PTCA guidelines) -- executive summary: a report of the American College ...

Primary percutaneous coronary intervention, where available, has become the therapy of choice in myocardial reperfusion during ST-elevation myocardial infarction. However, in a significant ...

Odessa, Texas-based Medical Center Hospital has earned reaccreditation for its cardiac catheterization lab with percutaneous coronary intervention from the American College of Cardiology, according to ...

Traditional percutaneous coronary intervention (T-PCI) has long been an effective method for treating coronary heart disease (CHD), but the radiation hazards and orthopedic injuries among T-PCI ...

Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is now considered the optimal approach to the management of myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation when the procedure is performed ...