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 ...

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.

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 ...

Cardiologists explain when angioplasty can be life-saving, when medicines may be enough and why finding a blockage does not ...

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 ...