Minimalistic Hybrid Approach for the Percutaneous Treatment of Coronary Chronic Total Occlusions: Midterm Follow-Up of an International Multicenter Cohort

The progressive aging of the population and the increased survival of patients with complex coronary artery disease have a crucial role in the epidemiology of coronary chronic total occlusions (CTOs) that can be found in around 20% of patients who underwent coronary angiography.1 The success rates of CTO percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) have favorably increased in the last decade with the evolution of techniques and the development of shared algorithms for standardized approach to CTO. Nowadays, in the hands of a dedicated expert operator, the success rate can reach over 90%.

Source: The American Journal of Cardiology - January 15, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Gianluca Castaldi, Mihajlo Kovacic, Enrico Poletti, Alice Benedetti, Alice Moroni, Benjamin Scott, Adriaan Wilgenhof, Andrea Bezzeccheri, Giovanni Vescovo, Simone Budassi, Hicham El Jattari, Carl Convens, Stefan Verheye, Paul Vermeersch, Carlo Zivelonghi, Source Type: research