2022
A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.
Simsek B, Kostantinis S, Karacsonyi J, Alaswad K, Megaly M, Karmpaliotis D, Masoumi A, Jaber W, Nicholson W, Rinfret S, Mashayekhi K, Werner G, McEntegart M, Lee S, Khatri J, Harding S, Avran A, Jaffer F, Doshi D, Kao H, Sianos G, Yamane M, Milkas A, Azzalini L, Garbo R, Tammam K, Abi Rafeh N, Nikolakopoulos I, Vemmou E, Rangan B, Burke M, Garcia S, Croce K, Wu E, Tsuchikane E, Di Mario C, Galassi A, Gagnor A, Knaapen P, Jang Y, Kim B, Poommipanit P, Brilakis E. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Journal Of Invasive Cardiology 2022, 34: e763-e775. PMID: 36227013.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMajor adverse cardiovascular eventsPercutaneous coronary interventionChronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary interventionSubsequent clinical outcomesClinical outcomesCTO-PCIObservational studyMyocardial infarctionCause mortalityCoronary interventionOdds ratioSubsequent coronary artery bypass surgerySystematic reviewCoronary artery bypass surgeryAdverse cardiovascular eventsHeart failure hospitalizationTarget vessel revascularizationArtery bypass surgeryBetter clinical outcomesConfidence intervalsRandom-effects modelWeb of ScienceCardiovascular deathCardiovascular eventsFailure hospitalization
2019
Comparison of Risk Scores for the Prediction of the Overall Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Ischemic Stroke: The Athens Stroke Registry
Georgiopoulos G, Ntaios G, Stamatelopoulos K, Manios E, Korompoki E, Vemmou E, Milionis H, Masi S, Lip G, Vemmos K. Comparison of Risk Scores for the Prediction of the Overall Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Ischemic Stroke: The Athens Stroke Registry. Journal Of Stroke And Cerebrovascular Diseases 2019, 28: 104415. PMID: 31669071, DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2019.104415.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsContinuous net reclassification indexAthens Stroke RegistryVascular risk stratificationIschemic stroke patientsOverall cardiovascular riskIschemic strokeRisk stratificationMyocardial infarctionStroke RegistryCardiovascular riskComposite endpointStroke patientsOverall vascular riskHigh-risk patientsCox regression analysisPrevious myocardial infarctionKaplan-Meier survivalAvailable prognostic scoresNet reclassification indexIncremental predictive valueReclassification valueStroke recurrenceCardiovascular deathVascular riskPrognostic score