OBJECTIVE The general population is gradually ageing in the western world. Therefore, the number of octogenarians undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is increasing. We aim to provide insight into temporal trends in the annual proportions of octogenarians among STEMI patients undergoing primary PCI and their clinical characte...

2004;43;15-17 J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. Ran Kornowski, and Shmuel Fuchs undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions Optimization of glycemic control and restenosis prevention in diabetic patients This information is current as of April 17, 2008 http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/full/43/1/15 located on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated informati...

Extending revascularization to all ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients who could benefit from it requires both the rethinking of significant aspects of what is being done now and the development of new thinking for patients for whom such care requires system innovations. Such rethinking and restructuring involves how services are purchased, how payments are made, and how account...

, ensayos clı́nicos con un fármaco en común? Rev Esp Cardiol. 2012, http:// dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.recesp.2012.06.024 2. Steiner S, Moertl D, Chen L, Coyle D, Wells GA. Network meta-analysis of prasugrel, ticagrelor, highand standard-dose clopidogrel in patients scheduled for percutaneous coronary interventions. Thromb Haemost. 2012;108:318–27. 3. Catalá-López F, Tobı́as A. Sı́ntesis de la evidencia...

Aim: Explain how research can advance the state-of-the-practice in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Methods and results: Identifying the success factors of PCI; identifying decision-making performance (power of judgement) as the factor that could be advanced faster than it is currently the case; explaining why and how such advancement needs a different research approach than those curr...

OBJECTIVES To examine the relationship between periprocedural bleeding complications and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) and mortality outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and study differences in the prognostic impact of different bleeding definitions. METHODS We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of PCI studies that evaluated periprocedural bl...

Comment. Over 4 years, national performance on D2B times improved dramatically, and these improvements were accompanied by a marked narrowing of racial disparities in D2B times. Improvements may be due to a number of factors, including public reporting of D2B data, the cumulative experience of hospitals performing primary percutaneous coronary intervention, and the dissemination of effective st...

I read with interest the paper by Scheller et al., suggesting a better clinical outcome when patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention and stenting received an ionic contrast medium during the procedure than when non-ionic contrast media were used. These results are surprising since they completely disagree with the results of two randomized clinical trials comparing ionic and non-...