Contemporary trends in coronary intervention: A report from the Registry of the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions

This report of the Registry for the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Int erventions provides data on the trends in coronary interventional procedure s from the time period June 1966 through December 1998. A total of 19,510 c onsecutive coronary interventional procedures were recorded. Over this time period, significant trends in coronary stent implantation were recorded al ong with a decreasing reliance on balloon angioplasty as sole therapy. Pati ents with acute myocardial infarction comprised an increased fraction of al l procedures. Almost half of all interventions were performed in patients w ith multivessel disease. Finally, decreasing rates of in-hospital death and emergent bypass surgery compared to prior reports from the registry charac terize the current practice of interventional cardiology. (C) 2000 Wiley-Li ss, Inc.