Patients undergoing acute coronary syndrome (ACS) benefit from percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). At present, there is no question about this. However, residual ischemia after PCI is associated with a worse prognosis. Angiography studies and intravascular imaging are useful to assess post intervention outcomes, but they are limited when it comes to the physiological assessment of…
Non-Cardiac Surgery with Incomplete Revascularization, Associated to Events
This study presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2016 and simultaneously published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, showed incomplete revascularization is associated with an increased risk of adverse cardiac events, particularly infarction, in patients that must later receive non-cardiac surgery. Patients with incomplete revascularization (defined as a ≥ 50% left…