The Impact of Age and Sex on In-Hospital Outcomes of Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.

CONCLUSIONS: Older age, but not sex, is associated with lower technical success and higher in-hospital complication rate for CTO-PCI. CTO-PCI is relatively infrequently attempted in women, despite high technical success and acceptable complication rates. PMID: 28089997 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28089997?dopt=Abstract

Source: The Journal of Invasive Cardiology - January 18, 2017 Category: Cardiology Tags: J Invasive Cardiol Source Type: research