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High-Risk PCI Patients Need Standby IABP Strategy
Use of an increasingly common percutaneous coronary intervention of inserting an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) to improve blood flow prior to patients undergoing stent placement did not lower rates of repeat procedures, heart attacks or death in patients, researchers say.