Athanasios Rempakos, Spyridon Kostantinis, Bahadir Simsek, Judit Karacsonyi, James W Choi, Paul Poommipanit, Jaikirshan J Khatri, Wissam Jaber, Stephane Rinfret, William Nicholson, Sevket Gorgulu, Farouc A Jaffer, Raj Chandwaney, Luiz F Ybarra, Rodrigo Bagur, Khaldoon Alaswad, Oleg Krestyaninov, Dmitrii Khelimskii, Dimitrios Karmpaliotis, Barry F Uretsky, Korhan Soylu, Ufuk Yildirim, Srinivasa Potluri, Bavana V Rangan, Olga C Mastrodemos, Salman Allana, Yader Sandoval, Nicholas M Burke, Emmanouil S Brilakis
The impact of a previous failure on procedural techniques and outcomes of chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has received limited study. We examined the clinical and angiographic characteristics and procedural outcomes of 9,393 patients who underwent 9,560 CTO PCIs at 42 United States and non-United States centers between 2012 and 2022. A total of 1,904 CTO lesions (20%) had a previous failed PCI attempt. Patients who underwent reattempt CTO PCI were more likely to have a family history of coronary artery disease (37% vs 31%, p <0...
March 3, 2023: American Journal of Cardiology