In patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), intracoronary delivery of high-dose adenosine following thrombus aspiration improves microvascular perfusion and may reduce ...

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Coronary no-reflow phenomenon (NRP), a common adverse complication in patients with ST-segment elevation ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SCAI has released a consensus statement on management of the technical aspects of PCI for patients with STEMI.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—A strategy of deferred stenting reduces no-reflow and thrombotic events compared with immediate stenting in select patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of a filter-based distal protection device reduced the incidence of the no-reflow phenomenon and was ...

Myocardial contrast echocardiography uses intravascular contrast agents that contain tracers. This modality can be used to assess microvascular perfusion (Figure 1), and hence has become the gold ...

Interv Cardiol. 2013;5(3):289-300. The Export catheter was also used in the larger TAPAS trial. [46] This was a single-center randomized trial that recruited 1071 patients. All the patients received ...