During the past three decades, percutaneous coronary intervention has become one of the
cardinal treatment strategies for stenotic coronary artery disease. Technical advances …

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has become the predominant procedure for
coronary revascularization in patients with both stable and unstable coronary artery disease …

BACKGROUND: Peri-procedural myocardial injury (PPI) during percutaneous coronary
intervention (PCI) is common and associated with a poor outcome. No reliable angiographic …

Aims To assess the incidence, risk factors and prognosis of periprocedural myocardial
infarction (MI) and myocardial injury in patients undergoing elective percutaneous coronary …

Aims Peri-procedural myocardial infarction (MI) is a not infrequent complication of
percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), but conflicting information exists regarding …

A substantial number of chronic coronary syndrome (CCS) patients undergoing
percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) experience periprocedural myocardial injury or …

Aims The prognostic importance of cardiac procedural myocardial injury and myocardial
infarction (MI) in chronic coronary syndrome (CCS) patients undergoing elective …

[CABG]) are performed in more than 1.7 million patients with ischemic heart disease in the
United States; more than 2.2 million PCIs alone are performed worldwide on an annual …

Objectives: We aimed to assess the differential implications of creatine kinase-myocardial
band (CK-MB) and troponin measurement with the universal definition of periprocedural …

Background—The relevance of the adverse prognostic implications of CK-MB elevation after
percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remains controversial. Therefore, we compared …