Contemporary outcomes of chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention in Europe: the ERCTO registry.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) of chronic total occlusions (CTO) have reached high procedural success rates thanks to dedicated equipment, evolving techniques, and worldwide adoption of state-of-the-art crossing algorithms.

Aims

We report the contemporary results of CTO PCIs performed by a large European community of experienced interventionalists. Furthermore, we investigated the impact of different risk factors for procedural major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) and trends of employment of specific devices like dual lumen microcatheters, guiding catheter extensions, intravascular ultrasound and calcium-modifying tools.

Methods

We evaluated data from 8,673 CTO PCIs included in the European Registry of Chronic Total Occlusion

SUBMITTER: Vadala G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10836392 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature