The risk assessment tool evaluated in this study included 9 biomarkers that have been shown to play a role in the pathological mechanisms of atherosclerosis sparked by endothelial damage and repair.

Roche has introduced its Chest Pain Triage algorithm, designed to rapidly identify acute coronary syndrome (ACS). This algorithm, part of the company’s cloud-based platform navify Algorithm Suite, ...

Heart attack symptoms are sometimes similar to non-heart-related conditions, making diagnosis tricky. UK researchers have turned to machine learning to provide doctors with a fast and accurate way of ...

PARIS, France—In patients with ACS and complex lesions, the incidence of adverse events is lower when OCT rather than angiography is used to guide PCI, according to a subanalysis of the OCCUPI trial.

"This study suggests that the ARC-HBR and PRECISE-DAPT bleeding criteria can be used to risk stratify patients and guide the therapeutic selection to lower the bleeding risk. For instance, we found ...

ACS patients who have a postdischarge bleed carry a heightened risk of mortality, regardless of whether they were initially treated with PCI, pooled data from four randomized trials show. That risk ...

ATLANTA — Patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) who had a myocardial infarction or unstable angina and underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) had a 76% lower rate of hospital ...