{"id":9579,"date":"2026-02-24T18:01:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/?p=9579"},"modified":"2026-02-24T18:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:01:36","slug":"death-after-pci-remains-rare-0-5-ami-most-common-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/death-after-pci-remains-rare-0-5-ami-most-common-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Death After PCI Remains Rare (0.5%) \u2014 AMI Most Common Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Death After PCI Remains Rare (0.5%) \u2014 AMI Most Common Cause<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source: The American Journal of Cardiology<\/div>\n<div>Published: February 2026<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Key Findings (PROGRESS-COMPLICATIONS Registry, 2014\u20132024)<\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 22,000 PCI procedures analyzed at two high-volume U.S. centers.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Overall in-hospital mortality: 0.5% (115 patients).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 13% of deaths occurred during the procedure.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 8.7% occurred within the first 24 hours.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 78.3% occurred after the first 24 hours.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Main Causes of Death<\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI): 58.3%<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Infection: 6.1%<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Aortic dissection: 3.5%<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Patient Profile (Those Who Died)<\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Mean age: 72 years<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 62.6% male<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 High burden of comorbidities:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Dyslipidemia (88.7%)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 CKD (66.1%)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Heart failure (61.7%)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Many had prior MI (41%) or prior PCI (37%)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Clinical Insight<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Most deaths were related to severity of initial presentation, not procedural failure, and occurred beyond the first 24 hours.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bottom Line:<\/div>\n<div>Modern PCI carries very low in-hospital mortality (0.5%), with AMI being the leading cause when death occurs.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajconline.org\/article\/S0002-9149(26)00067-6\/fulltext\">https:\/\/www.ajconline.org\/article\/S0002-9149(26)00067-6\/fulltext<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death After PCI Remains Rare (0.5%) \u2014 AMI Most Common Cause Source: The American Journal of Cardiology Published: February 2026 Key Findings (PROGRESS-COMPLICATIONS Registry, 2014\u20132024) \u2022 22,000 PCI procedures analyzed at two high-volume U.S. centers. \u2022 Overall in-hospital mortality: 0.5% (115 patients). \u2022 13% of deaths occurred during the procedure. \u2022 8.7% occurred within the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9580,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions\/9580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}