The Role of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the Treatment of Chronic Total Occlusions: Rationale and Review of the Literature.

CONCLUSIONS: CTO-PCI is a rapidly expanding specialized procedure in interventional cardiology and is reasonable or indicated if the occluded vessel is responsible for symptoms or in selected patients with silent ischemia in whom there is a large amount of myocardium at risk and PCI is likely to be successful.
PMID: 29345588 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Current Vascular Pharmacology - January 16, 2018 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Agrawal H, Lange R, Montanez R, Wali S, Mohammad KO, Kar S, Teleb M, Mukherjee D Tags: Curr Vasc Pharmacol Source Type: research