Overall, 82.3% of patients without cancer underwent primary PCI, but this percentage was much lower in those with a cancer diagnosis. The rate of primary PCI ranged from 54.2% to 70.6% in the cancer ...

Romans 5; 3-4: "Suffering produces endurance and endurance produces character and character produces hope." Indeed there is still "hope" for all of waiting to move primary PCI without surgery on ...

Springfield, IL- A program of interhospital transfer of STEMI patients for primary PCI can be successful in a rural environment, a new study shows [1]. "Since we initiated this program we have ...

Compared with fibrinolysis, primary PCI extended the time to a first composite event or reinfarction by about 1 year on average. There was no difference in all-cause death at 16 years (50.5% with ...

Association of Physician Variation in Use of Manual Aspiration Thrombectomy With Outcomes Following Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction, JAMA ...

Patients undergoing primary PCI for an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) were more likely to achieve a needle-to-balloon time of 10 minutes or less if operators started with PCI using a ...

Forty-one patients undergoing primary PCI were randomly assigned to receive intracoronary streptokinase (250 kU) or no additional therapy. Two days later, cardiac catheterization was repeated, and ...

Immediate PCI of nonculprit lesions during index hospitalization for STEMI was shown to be noninferior with fewer adverse events vs. a staged strategy addressing the nonculprit lesions after ...

Primary PCI should continue to be the standard of care for patients with STEMI during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a consensus statement released by the Society for Cardiovascular ...

Anticoagulation after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) does not prevent adverse outcomes in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), according to late ...

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