Guidelines: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Revised recommendations from the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association

Sponsoring Organizations: American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions

Purpose: Since PCI guidelines were last published (2001), drug-eluting stents have become available and PCI has become the most widely used form of coronary revascularization. Grounded in evidence published through 2005, the new guidelines should help to guide decision making about PCI. The class I recommendations mentioned below reflect consistent evidence and/or consensus opinion; class IIa recommendations reflect some conflict among evidence or opinion, with the weight in favor of usefulness or efficacy.

Key Points:

1. Troponin now joins creatine kinase-MB as a class I–recommended measurement in pati…

Reviewing Author

Howard C. Herrmann, MD