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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on July 11, 2007
European Heart Journal 2007 28(16):1917-1919; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm265
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© The European Society of Cardiology 2007. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Major bleeding after PCI. Where is our crystal ball?

Frederick A. Spencer1 and Philippe Gabriel Steg2,*

1 Department of Medicine, McMaster University Medical Center, Hamilton, Canada
2 Department of Cardiology, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Université Paris 7–Denis Diderot, Paris, France

* Corresponding author. Tel: +33 1 40 25 86 68. E-mail address: gabriel.steg@bch.aphp.fr

This editorial refers to ‘Development and validation of a prognostic risk score for major bleeding in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention via the femoral approach’ by E. Nikolsky et al., on page 1936

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Over the last three decades, there have been remarkable advances in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Utilization of coronary stents and combination antiplatelet/antithrombotic therapy have led to significant improvements in revascularization success rates as well as marked reductions in thrombotic complications. Patients considering elective procedures are now routinely quoted a < 1% risk of incurring a myocardial infarction or of requiring urgent revascularization. These advances have led to exponential increases in the utilization of PCI in patients with both stable and unstable coronary artery disease (CAD) over the last decade—it is now estimated that > 800 000 PCI procedures are performed annually in Europe.1 In addition, PCI is being performed in increasingly complex patients, including the elderly and those with multiple co-morbidities, who are at higher risk for incurring procedural complications.

However, with increased utilization of PCI, increased . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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