Transradial primary percutaneous coronary intervention - experience from a tertiary care cardiac centre.

Objective: To determine the outcomes of primary percutaneous coronary intervention via transradial approach in a tertiary care cardiac centre.

Methods: The study retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 160 consecutive patients who presented to Tabba Heart Institute, a private-sector facility in Karachi, between January 2009 and January 2011 with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction and treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention via transradial approach. The primary end-points were in-hospital mortality and procedural success.

Procedure indications and outcome of percutaneous coronary interventions in a tertiary care hospital.

Objective: To determine clinical indications and one month outcome of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI) in a tertiary care centre.

Methods: We prospectively conducted a descriptive study on 259 symptomatic coronary artery disease patients, who underwent primary, rescue or elective PCI with stent deployment at the Tabba Heart Institute, from May 2005 to September 2006. The primary objective of the study was to identify--stable angina, unstable angina, Non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), congestive heart failure (CHF) and cardiogenic shock) and thirty days outcome of PCI in terms of mortality, peri-procedural myocardial infarction, re-infarction and stent thrombosis.