WASHINGTON -- Since reimbursement has improved for coronary revascularization at ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), outpatients going this route have been few but fairly well selected. Medicare claims ...

(UPDATED) In a head-to-head comparison of two revascularization strategies for patients with three-vessel coronary artery disease, PCI guided by a functional assessment of ischemia using fractional ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . PCI without surgery on-site is as safe as PCI at centers with on-site surgery across randomized controlled ...

For patients with complex coronary artery disease deemed ineligible for surgery, the short-term risk of death with PCI is considerably lower than the evaluating surgeon’s risk estimate, according to ...

Regulators are on board and the reimbursement is there, but should more complex percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures be shifted from a traditional hospital setting to an ambulatory ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with prior bypass surgery who need PCI had better 1-year results when the procedure was performed on ...

Of note, both revascularization techniques can aggravate renal insufficiency through different mechanisms of renal injury (i.e., contrast-induced nephropathy vs bypass machine and/or hemodynamic ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances reviews a pencil-beam scanning catheter for intracoronary optical coherence tomography. Cardiovascular disease is one of the diseases that seriously ...