Compared with thrombolytic reperfusion, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) has been found superior for the primary management of acute myocardial infarction in terms of reducing the ...

Smokers needed their blocked arteries fixed nearly a decade earlier than non-smokers, and patients with obesity underwent these procedures four years earlier than non-obese patients, according to a ...

ROC = receiver operating characteristic curve; MI = myocardial infarction. *—All studied adults undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. †—Area under the ROC, a measure of overall test accuracy.

To maintain patency of an upper extremity arteriovenous fistula (AVF), placement of a covered stent after percutaneous transluminal angioplasty is better than surgery alone, a new study finds. The ...

In what is believed to be the first randomized placebo-controlled trial of its kind, patients with a chronic total blockage of a coronary artery who received a nonsurgical procedure to reopen the ...