Another study, this one a large registry analysis from Korea with long-term follow-up, has provided support for use of IVUS-guided PCI in patients with acute myocardial infarction. After 4 years, ...

WASHINGTON, DC – A new study found that intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) -guided intervention in patients with chronic total occlusion (CTO) could improve outcomes compared to a conventional ...

With respect to prevention of important clinical events, including cardiac death, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) under optical coherence tomography (OCT) guidance performs similarly to PCI ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “There have been no head-to-head, outcome-based clinical trials that compare imaging vs. physiology guidance in ...

CAD, coronary artery disease, stent, atherosclerosis, angiogram, angiography IVUS-guided DES implantation resulted in a lower incidence of target-vessel failure at 12 months for patients undergoing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At 3 years, among the 1,423 patients for whom data were available, TVF, defined as cardiac death, target vessel ...

ATLANTA -- The use of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)-guided percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute coronary syndromes resulted in better outcomes compared with ...

In the first large, randomized head-to-head comparison of two methods of evaluating patients' need for a stent in their coronary artery, patients who were evaluated using a technique that measures ...

Enrolling 3,349 patients, the IVUS sub-study is part of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation's (CRF) ADAPT-DES study (Assessment of Dual AntiPlatelet Therapy with Drug-Eluting Stents), a prospective ...

Independent analysis includes Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) data from over 700,000 peripheral arterial and peripheral venous intervention patients Data demonstrate a 32% reduction in ...

In the first large, randomized head-to-head comparison of two methods of evaluating patients’ need for a stent in their coronary artery, patients who were evaluated using a technique that measures ...