Sentences with phrase «as percutaneous coronary intervention»

The findings echo past studies, which have shown patients with multiple narrowed arteries have better outcomes with coronary artery bypass grafting, also known as CABG or heart bypass surgery, than with angioplasty, also known as percutaneous coronary intervention or PCI, a less - invasive option in which a stent is inserted to hold the arteries open.

29 percent less likely to have angioplasty, also known as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI);

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Use of the novel anticoagulant otamixaban did not reduce ischemic events compared with unfractionated heparin plus eptifibatide but increased bleeding among patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes undergoing a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries), according to a study published by JAMA.

«The take - home message from this study is that deferred stent implantation can not be recommended as a routine procedure for STEMI patients treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention,» said Henning Kelbaek, M.D., of Roskilde Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and lead author of the study.

Chronic total occlusion, a complete blockage of the coronary artery, sometimes referred to as the «final frontier in interventional cardiology,» represents a major challenge for catheter - based percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).