Salman S Allana, Athanasios Rempakos, Michaella Alexandrou, Deniz Mutlu, Khaldoon Alaswad, Lorenzo Azzalini, Kathleen Kearney, Oleg Krestyaninov, Dmitrii Khelimskii, Sevket Gorgulu, Raj Chandwaney, Farouc A Jaffer, Jaikirshan J Khatri, Rhian Davies, Stewart Benton, James W Choi, Dimitrios Karmpaliotis, Paul Poommipanit, William Nicholson, Wissam Jaber, Stephane Rinfret, Jarrod Frizzell, Taral Patel, Brian Jefferson, Nazif Aygul, Omer Goktekin, Ahmed ElGuindy, Nidal Abi-Rafeh, Bavana V Rangan, Bilal Murad, M Nicholas Burke, Yader Sandoval, Emmanouil S Brilakis
OBJECTIVES: There is limited data on race and outcomes of chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The authors sought to evaluate CTO PCI techniques and outcomes in different racial groups. METHODS: We examined the baseline characteristics and procedural outcomes of 11 806 CTO PCIs performed at 44 US and non-US centers between 2012 and March 2023. In-hospital major adverse cardiac events (MACE) included death, myocardial infarction, repeat target-vessel revascularization, pericardiocentesis, cardiac surgery, and stroke prior to discharge...
March 2024: Journal of Invasive Cardiology