Among 7697 consecutive patients with multivessel coronary artery disease, MI rates after PCI were 18.7%, 3.2%, and 5.5% with the second universal definition of MI (UDMI), third UDMI, and the ...

Although 5-year all-cause mortality rates are similar in patients with complex CAD whether they undergo either CABG or PCI, deaths related to MI are less frequent with CABG, according to an analysis ...

When investigators analyzed events based on the secondary MI definition, which assessed PCI- and CABG-related infarctions using cTn levels as opposed to CK-MB, the conservative strategy of ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Rates of infection secondary to CABG ... Isolated pneumonia was overwhelmingly the most common CABG-related infection, seen in about 3% of the total population at all centers.

Coronary artery bypass grafting related myocardial infarction is arbitrarily defined by elevation of cardiac biomarker values (>10 × 99th percentile URL) in patients with normal baseline cardiac ...

Procedure-related myocardial infarction (pMI) is directly associated with a coronary revascularization procedure, such as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or CABG surgery. In contrast to ...

In patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), percutaneous ... assigned patients with STEMI and multivessel coronary artery disease who had undergone successful culprit ...

who had a cardiac-related death. A total of 239 patients (10.8%) had a nonfatal myocardial infarction, and 276 (12.5%) had a repeat revascularization procedure (21 patients had a repeat CABG and ...

Revascularisation of multivessel coronary artery disease (MVD) can be accomplished by either percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. An ...

We believe DrugSorb-ATR represents a breakthrough solution that will allow patients to proceed with their much-needed CABG surgery in a safe and timely manner rather than risking serious ...

Background: Programs for smoking cessation for cardiac patients are underused in Canada. We examined the efficacy of an intervention for smoking cessation for patients admitted to hospital for ...