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Successful chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention is associated with significant clinical benefit compared to failed procedures.
This editorial discusses the importance of scoring systems and preparation in achieving successful CTO PCI, which observational studies link to significant clinical benefit.
While the benefit of chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has not yet been demonstrated in randomized controlled trials, several observational studies have shown that, as compared with failed procedures, successful CTO PCI is associated with significant clinical benefit (1).
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Karatasakis et al. (2016) studied this question. Successful chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention is associated with significant clinical benefit compared to failed procedures.
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