A recent retrospective study found that performing Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (CTO-PCI) ...

Final follow-up from the trial shows durable protection against TLF, especially in chronic total occlusions and diffuse long ...

The coronary collateral circulation protects the heart from myocardial ischaemia, and is associated with improved survival in patients with coronary artery disease Collateral vessels are present at ...

An artificial intelligence algorithm for ECG interpretation (AI-ECG) is superior to conventional, guideline-recommended STEMI criteria for identifying patients with chest pain who have an occluded ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The rate of same-day discharge after chronic total occlusion PCI rose from 3% to 21% between 2015 and 2021.

The most serious form of the acute coronary syndrome, ST segment elevation myocardial infarction, or STEMI, most often results from complete thrombotic occlusion of a major epicardial coronary artery.

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) involving drug-eluting stents is increasingly used to treat complex coronary artery disease, although coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) has been the ...

Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine ...

A 70-year-old woman with an acute myocardial infarction presented with ventricular fibrillation and SCAD of an obtuse marginal branch of the left circumflex artery (Panel A, bracket). Computed ...