Hudson Regional Hospital announced Jan. 9 that its Cardiac Catheterization Lab earned New State Department of Health approval for a diagnostic tool used to identify and treat patients with chest pain.

Time is of the essence for STEMI patients undergoing multivessel PCI, a new meta-analysis suggests. In select patients, treating the culprit and nonculprit lesions all at once—at the time of the index ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with STEMI and multivessel disease who underwent a single-procedure multivessel PCI had improved ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “We found that the total time to reperfusion was strongly related to infarct size and clinical outcomes, whereas ...

AMSTERDAM -- When it comes to timing the complete revascularization for heart attack patients with multivessel disease, treating multiple vessels in one session in the catheterization lab proved ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.—Collecting an accurate medical history can predict adherence to dual antiplatelet therapy, and could therefore inform decisions regarding BMS vs. DES use in patients with STEMI, ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Holding off stent implantation for several days after patients have undergone thrombectomy, balloon angioplasty, or both to open STEMI-related arteries may be safe and beneficial, ...

Noninferiority was not demonstrated between immediate and staged complete revascularisation in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and multivessel disease undergoing ...

The current door-to-balloon time guideline for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients from the American Heart Association is 90 minutes or less. Many hospitals around the country have taken steps ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- A new protocol used to transfer heart attack patients via helicopter from the General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital has safely and significantly reduced overall ...