Spyridon Kostantinis, Athanasios Rempakos, Bahadir Simsek, Judit Karacsonyi, Salman S Allana, Khaldoon Alaswad, Mir B Basir, Oleg Krestyaninov, Dmitrii Khelimskii, Sevket Gorgulu, Rhian E Davies, Stewart M Benton, Jaikirshan J Khatri, Paul Poommipanit, James W Choi, Wissam A Jaber, Stephane Rinfret, William Nicholson, Karim M Al-Azizi, Srinivasa Potluri, Nazif Aygul, Bulent B Altunkeser, Michael Koutouzis, Ioannis Tsiafoutis, Anastasios Milkas, Ahmed M ElGuindy, Nidal Abi Rafeh, Omer Goktekin, Olga C Mastrodemos, Bavana V Rangan, Yader Sandoval, M Nicholas Burke, Emmanouil S Brilakis
BACKGROUND: Donor vessel injury is a potentially life-threatening complication of chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). AIMS: Our goal was to examine the incidence, mechanisms, treatment, and outcomes of patients with donor vessel injury in a large multicenter CTO PCI registry. METHODS: We analyzed the baseline clinical and angiographic characteristics, and procedural outcomes of 12,349 CTO PCIs performed between 2012 and 2022 at 44 centers...
August 10, 2023: Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions