Tag: MI

American College of Cardiology Expands Patient Navigator Program

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Hundreds of hospitals across the United States will have access to tools and resources to help improve care and lower readmission rates for myocardial infarction (MI) patients as part of the American College of Cardiology’s expanded Patient Navigator Program: Focus MI Quality Campaign. With support from founding sponsor AstraZeneca, the expanded program will provide […]

Non-Culprit Lesions Cause 2x More Subsequent MIs than PCI’d Lesions

by Ken Dropiewski, Prime-Core Executive Search (ken@prime-core.com) A new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association shows that AMIs following a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is twice as likely to originate from untreated lesions versus previous stented lesions. Interesting since this information seems to differ from previous studies such as PROSPECT which show a near equal […]