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SUBMITTER: Garcia S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5425324 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Garcia Santiago S Alraies M Chadi MC Karatasakis Aris A Yannopoulos Demetris D Karmpaliotis Dimitri D Alaswad Khaldoon K Jaffer Farouc A FA Yeh Robert W RW Patel Mitul P MP Bahadorani John J Karacsonyi Judit J Kalsaria Pratik P Danek Barbara B Banerjee Subhash S Brilakis Emmanouil S ES
Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions 20161110 1
<h4>Objective</h4>To assess the spatial distribution of chronic total occlusions (CTOs) within the coronary arteries and describe procedural strategies and outcomes during CTO percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).<h4>Background</h4>Acute occlusions due to plaque rupture tend to cluster within the proximal third of the coronary artery.<h4>Methods</h4>We examined the clinical and procedural characteristics of 1,348 patients according to lesion location within the coronary tree.<h4>Results</h4> ...[more]