Prior ischemic stroke is not associated with worse clinical outcomes in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.

Conclusions: This study demonstrates that, in daily clinical practice, PCI can be provided safely and with good results to patients with a prior ischemic stroke (≥3 months).
PMID: 25090258 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical and Investigative Medicine - August 5, 2014 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Zhang M, Guddeti RR, Wang SP, Wang J, Xin MK, Chen SJ, Kang JP, Lv Q, Ma CS, Liu JH Tags: Clin Invest Med Source Type: research