RT Book, Section A1 Schoos, Mikkel Malby A1 Mehran, Roxana A1 Dangas, George A2 Samady, Habib A2 Fearon, William F. A2 Yeung, Alan C. A2 King III, Spencer B. SR Print(0) ID 1146605804 T1 Bleeding Risk Scores T2 Interventional Cardiology, 2e YR 2017 FD 2017 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071820363 LK accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146605804 RD 2024/04/24 AB Advances in the catheterizations techniques, stent designs, and pharmacotherapeutics have reduced adverse ischemic event rates such as cardiovascular death, ST (stent thrombosis), recurrent myocardial infarctions, and revascularizations in patients with coronary artery disease undergoing elective or acute percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). However, the same antithrombotic regimens also increase bleeding risk, and a cornerstone of contemporary cardiovascular interventions is balancing ischemic and bleeding events in order to optimize the net benefit for the individual patient.