The major limitation of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with stenting is stent thrombosis, a serious and life-threatening event that can occur suddenly and, in most cases, unpredictably ...

A growing number of patients are referred to CABG after having prior PCI, approximately 6–13% of patients with implanted bare-metal stents undergo CABG within 1 year after PCI, and 13–26% ...

A LARGE multinational study has revealed that patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) face significantly worse long-term outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for coronary ...

It is used in a procedure called percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Coronary stents are now used in more than 90% of PCI procedures. Stents reduce angina (chest pain) and have been shown to ...

Moreover, it is noteworthy that stent thrombosis offers different interpretations in DES and BMS. In the aforementioned analysis, in the DES group, the incidence of very-late primary stent ...

While PCI, which includes both angioplasty and stenting, is one of the most common operations in the world, it does carry a small (about 1-2%) but significant risk of death. Around 10% of all ...

Since the advent of drug-eluting stents, there has been a debate in the intervention community over how long dual antiplatelet therapy should last after PCI. Cardiologists have to carefully ...

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That included 61% patients with acute coronary syndrome, 31.8% with diabetes, 55.3% with complex lesions, 22.8% with ...