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Welcome to PCIpedia.org. This wiki-based PCI course and -textbook is designed for especially for cardiology residents and intervention cardiologists. PCIpedia.org is not intended as a patient information site. Visit this site to learn about percutaneous coronary interventions.

The PCI course

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Go to the Cardiac catherization course

The PCI Textbook

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Browse the illustrated PCI Textbook
  • Preparing PCI
    • Atherosclerosis and vascular biology
    • Antiplatlet and antithrombotic agents
    • Other medication
    • Intravascular contrast agents
    • Guiding catheter selection
    • Guidewire selection
    • Embolic protection
  • Indication for PCI
    • Elective PCI
    • PCI for NSTEMI/ ACS
    • PCI for STEMI
    • Rescue PCI and facilitated PCI
  • Type of PCI
    • Balloon angioplasty
    • Bare metal stents
    • Drug eluting stent
    • Drug elutoing ballon
    • Bioabsorble stent
    • Rotational atherectomy
    • Cutting ballon
    • Directional coronary atherectomy
    • laserangioplasty
  • Type of anatomy
    • Single vessel PCI
    • Ostial lesions
    • Bifurcations
    • Long lesions
    • Diffuse disease
    • Chronic total occlusions
    • Main stem
    • Saphenous vein grafts

Cases and Examples

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Learn from these cases and examples
  • Inferior STEMI
    • PCI for distal RCA
    • PCI for mid RCA
    • PCI for proximal RCA
    • PCI for distal RCX
    • PCI for mid RCX
    • PCI for proximal RCX
  • Anterior STEMI
    • PCI for distal LAD
    • PCI for mid LAD
    • PCI for proximal LAD
    • PCI for mainstem
News
  • HELP WANTED!!!!! Please send us your interesting intervention cases. Any format is welcome, we will convert it. You are also invited to write a chapter for the textbook, or comment on existing chapters
  • PCIpedia is currently in a construction phase. Please let us know if you would like to contribute to this first freely accessible, open access, wiki PCI course!.