Cost-Effectiveness in Patients Undergoing Revascularization of Chronic Total Occluded Coronary Arteries-A Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Revascularization of patients with chronic total occluded coronary arteries (CTO) is recommended if they have symptoms despite medical treatment. The cost-effectiveness of treatment with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was investigated in this cohort study.

Materials and methods

The study was designed as a cohort study enrolling all patients undergoing PCI for a CTO in the Central Region of Denmark and recorded in the EUROCTO database. Major adverse cardio- and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) and admissions for cardiac symptoms were collected in the Western Denmark Heart Registry and through medical Journal Audits. Exposure was defined as successful revascularization of all CTO lesions compared with having one or more remaining CTOs after PCI attempt(s). C

SUBMITTER: Holck EN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9177990 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature