A fast-track procedure to unblock patients' arteries immediately after a heart attack is being piloted in Wales.Around 270,000 people have a heart attack each year in the UK, leading to 150,000 deaths.The pilot scheme at Morriston Hospital's Cardiac Centre in Swansea is aimed at improving ...
The relatively routine procedure that uses balloons to unblock clogged arteries in the heart to prevent heart attacks shows promise for doing the same job in the brain. And if narrowed blood vessels in the brain can be opened, stroke may be prevented, researchers reported recently in Stroke: Jo...
or urgent PCI, but not emergency PCI when speed is of the essence. Some 60% of patients with coronary heart disease undergoing elective PCI to unblock an artery thought it would cure their coronary heart disease. Nearly all patients (95%) believed it would reduce their risk of ...