Incidence and Clinical Impact of Stroke Complicating Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Results of the Euro Heart Survey Percutaneous Coronary Interventions Registry [Cardiac Catheterization]

Conclusions— Stroke as complication of PCI occurs rarely (0.4%) in clinical practice in Europe today. However, peri-interventional stroke is still associated with an exceedingly high in-hospital mortality rate. Most predictors for periprocedural stroke are not modifiable and cannot be diminished before PCI. Therefore, treatment of patients with stroke after PCI needs further research.

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Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions - August 20, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Werner, N., Bauer, T., Hochadel, M., Zahn, R., Weidinger, F., Marco, J., Hamm, C., Gitt, A. K., Zeymer, U. Tags: Acute Stroke Syndromes Cardiac Catheterization Source Type: research