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Databases usually do not allow a distinction between Ad hoc PCI. Compared with procedures performed entirely by an interventional cardiologistby far the more common practice today. Ticagrelor More Effective Than Clopidogrel For Ad Hoc Percutaneous Coronary Intervention The Cardiology Advisor Ad hoc PCI is defined as performance of the PCI procedure immediately following diagnostic catheterization. . Complex cases as quantified by the J-CTO score. This approach is controversial and we need to refine it but in TAVR patients it is feasible to screen for CAD and to perform ad hoc PCI in the same session Marco Barbanti MD University of Catania Italy told TCTMD. The Gold Standard for Heart Attacks The authors of the consensus statement clearly reaffirm that performing angioplasty immediately in the setting of acute myocardial infarction or the pre-heart attack condition of acute coronary syndrome ACS is the current standard of care. ...