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August 4, 2025Catheterization and Cardiovascular InterventionsOpen Access

Prognostic Benefit of the Target Vessel in Revascularization of Chronic Total Occluded Coronary Arteries: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

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ESEmil SkovAarhus University HospitalEHErnil HansenUniversity Hospital RegensburgLMLone J.H. MogensenAarhus University Hospital

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Systematic review reveals PCI success impacts all-cause mortality in chronic total occlusions, suggesting vessel-specific outcomes.

Key Points

  • Successful percutaneous coronary intervention significantly reduces all-cause mortality in patients with LAD chronic total occlusions.
  • Lower risk of major adverse cardiac events was noted for LAD lesions post-PCI, unlike RCA and LCX.
  • Twenty observational studies, reviewing over 3000, were systematically included in the analysis.
  • Findings highlight the need for randomized trials to better understand outcomes based on different coronary arteries.

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Skov et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/689a0f86e6551bb0af8d08dfhttps://doi.org/10.1002/ccd.70063
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