Several advances have been made in interventional cardiology, particularly in the field of valvular heart disease. Among the procedures for which technologies are available, percutaneous replacement ...

With growth in the use of percutaneous axillary arterial access in large-bore aortic valve interventions, endovascular aortic repair, and mechanical circulatory support (MCS) placement, it’s time to ...

Certification to perform catheter-based interventions for coronary artery disease was originally limited to hospitals that had the capability to perform cardiac surgery on site. However, there has ...

Whether the glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor abciximab is beneficial in patients undergoing elective percutaneous coronary intervention after pretreatment with clopidogrel is unknown. The incidence of ...

Interventional cardiology made its debut 27 years ago, when Andreas Grüntzig performed the first percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in a human. Since then, rapid expansion of our knowledge ...

New findings from a DETOUR2 substudy show that minimally invasive percutaneous transmural arterial bypass (PTAB) may offer a ...

The efficacy and safety of mini-percutaneous nephrolithotomy (mini-PCNL) in young pediatric patients with kidney stones appears acceptable in a trial.

Overall survival benefit from tebentafusp in patients with best response of progressive disease. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a ...

– Percutaneous lumbar discectomy procedures are coded 62287, which is for a decompression done by any method/technique. That code is billed once (for single or multiple levels), regardless of the ...