Spyridon Kostantinis, Athanasios Rempakos, Bahadir Simsek, Judit Karacsonyi, Salman S Allana, Michaella Alexandrou, Sevket Gorgulu, Khaldoon Alaswad, Mir Babar Basir, Rhian E Davies, Stewart M Benton, Oleg Krestyaninov, Dmitrii Khelimskii, Jarrod Frizzell, Luiz F Ybarra, Rodrigo Bagur, Niranjan Reddy, Jimmy L Kerrigan, Elias V Haddad, Michael Love, Basem Elbarouni, Korhan Soylu, Ufuk Yildirim, Philip Dattilo, Lorenzo Azzalini, Kathleen Kearney, Yasser Sadek, Ahmed M ElGuindy, Nidal Abi Rafeh, Omer Goktekin, Olga C Mastrodemos, Bavana V Rangan, Yader Sandoval, M Nicholas Burke, Emmanouil S Brilakis
BACKGROUND: Coronary calcification is common and increases the difficulty of chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). METHODS: We examined the impact of calcium on procedural outcomes of 13,079 CTO PCIs performed in 12,799 patients at 46 US and non-US centers between 2012 and 2023. RESULTS: Moderate or severe calcification was present in 46.6% of CTO lesions. Patients whose lesions were calcified were older and more likely to have had prior coronary artery bypass graft surgery...
November 1, 2023: International Journal of Cardiology