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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2006;295:263-264.

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Noting recent improvements in devices, techniques, and medications, the cardiology community has updated guidelines for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)—just 4 years after publication of previous recommendations.

Experts from the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions collaborated on the new guidelines, which were announced November 13 at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions in Dallas (http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3035436). PCI is performed about 1 million times annually in the United States.

New guidelines have been issued for the performance of percutaneous coronary interventions such as the placement of stents.

Fueling the 2005 revisions is the rapidly increasing use of drug-eluting stents, said Ted Feldman, MD, a member of the guideline writing committee. Feldman is professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Ill. He . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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