Athanasios Rempakos, Michaella Alexandrou, Deniz Mutlu, James W Choi, Paul Poommipanit, Jaikirshan J Khatri, Laura Young, Brian Jefferson, Sevket Gorgulu, Farouc A Jaffer, Raj Chandwaney, Rhian Davies, Stewart Benton, Khaldoon Alaswad, Lorenzo Azzalini, Kathleen E Kearney, Oleg Krestyaninov, Dmitrii Khelimskii, Philip Dattilo, Niranjan Reddy, Nidal Abi-Rafeh, Ahmed Elguindy, Omer Goktekin, Bavana V Rangan, Olga C Mastrodemos, Ahmed Al-Ogaili, Yader Sandoval, Nicholas M Burke, Emmanouil S Brilakis, Mir B Basir
BACKGROUND: The complex high-risk indicated percutaneous coronary intervention (CHIP) score is a tool developed using the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society (BCIS) database to define CHIP cases and predict in-hospital major adverse cardiac or cerebrovascular events (MACCE). AIM: To assess the validity of the CHIP score in chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). METHODS: We evaluated the performance of the CHIP score on 8341 CTO PCIs from the Prospective Global Registry for the Study of Chronic Total Occlusion Intervention (PROGRESS-CTO) performed at 44 centers between 2012 and 2023...
April 17, 2024: Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions