2023
Contemporary In-Hospital Outcomes of Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Interventions: Insights from the MENATA (Middle East, North Africa, Turkey, and Asia) Chapter of the PROGRESS-CTO Registry
Gorgulu S, Kostantinis S, ElGuindy A, Abi Rafeh N, Simsek B, Rempakos A, Karacsonyi J, Kalay N, Samir A, Jaoudeh F, Maalouf A, Soylu K, Yildirim U, Tigen M, Cincin A, Kalyanasundaram A, Aygul N, Altunkeser B, El Sayed A, Sadek Y, Shelton C, Jbara K, Vemmou E, Nikolakopoulos I, Mastrodemos O, Rangan B, Allana S, Sandoval Y, Burke M, Brilakis E, Goktekin O. Contemporary In-Hospital Outcomes of Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Interventions: Insights from the MENATA (Middle East, North Africa, Turkey, and Asia) Chapter of the PROGRESS-CTO Registry. The American Journal Of Cardiology 2023, 206: 221-229. PMID: 37717475, DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2023.08.103.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPercutaneous coronary interventionChronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary interventionCoronary interventionConsecutive CTO percutaneous coronary interventionsHospital major adverse cardiac eventsAir kerma radiation dosePrevious percutaneous coronary interventionMajor adverse cardiac eventsCTO percutaneous coronary interventionCommon target vesselJapanese CTO scoreMedian contrast volumePROGRESS-CTO RegistryAdverse cardiac eventsIn-Hospital OutcomesAcceptable complication rateProcedural success ratePrevalence of diabetesRight coronary arteryIncidence of perforationPROGRESS CTO scoresAntegrade wire escalationAngiographic characteristicsCardiac eventsExperienced centers
2019
Use of the DyeVert System in Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.
Tajti P, Xenogiannis I, Hall A, Burke MN, Chavez I, Garcia S, Gössl M, Mooney M, Poulose A, Sorajja P, Wang Y, Vemmou E, Nikolakopoulos I, Morley P, Rangan BV, Ungi I, Brilakis ES. Use of the DyeVert System in Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Journal Of Invasive Cardiology 2019, 31: 253-259. PMID: 31478890.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPercutaneous coronary interventionChronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary interventionCTO-PCIContrast volumeCoronary interventionCommon target vesselMedian contrast volumeContrast-induced nephropathyAdditional larger studiesPrimary clinical endpointRight coronary arteryHospital major complicationsLarger contrast volumeAmount of contrastMost patientsCardiac catheterizationMajor complicationsProcedural complicationsCircumflex arterySingle centerCoronary arteryMean ageClinical endpointsProcedural outcomesPatientsLeft Main Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Case Series.
Xenogiannis I, Karmpaliotis D, Alaswad K, Basir MB, Yeh RW, Tamez H, Patel M, Mahmud E, Choi JW, Burke MN, Doing AH, Dattilo P, Khatri JJ, Sheikh AM, Malik BA, Greene ME, Abi Rafeh N, Maalouf A, Abou Jaoudeh F, Moses JW, Lembo NJ, Parikh M, Kirtane AJ, Ali ZA, Gkargkoulas F, Russo J, Hakemi E, Tajti P, Hall AB, Vemmou E, Nikolakopoulos I, Rangan BV, Abdullah S, Banerjee S, Brilakis ES. Left Main Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Case Series. Journal Of Invasive Cardiology 2019, 31: e220-e225. PMID: 31257217.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPercutaneous coronary interventionPrior coronary artery bypass graft surgeryCoronary artery bypass graft surgeryChronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary interventionArtery bypass graft surgeryBypass graft surgeryGraft surgeryCoronary interventionProcedural outcomesAir kerma radiation doseMean J-CTO scoreMedian contrast volumePeriprocedural myocardial infarctionProcedural success rateJ-CTO scoreMedian procedure timePROGRESS CTO scoresBetter procedural outcomesAntegrade wire escalationAngiographic characteristicsComplication scoreMost patientsPatient ageCase seriesContrast volume