Impact Of Cirrhosis On 90-Day Outcomes After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

we found of interest the paper by Lu et al. on the outcome after percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with cirrhosis.1 In these patients they observed a much higher frequency of overall adverse events (44.7% vs 17.7%); most importantly, gastrointestinal bleeding was increased more than five times (15.3% vs 2.7%).1 We believe this paper should gain wide diffusion among practicing gastroenterologists, and cardiologists, as acute myocardial infarction is increasing among cirrhosis patients, also in the USA.
Source: The American Journal of Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Source Type: research