Angiographic Success and Procedural Complications in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion Interventions : A Weighted Meta-Analysis of 18,061 Patients From 65 Studies
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...A recent systematic review of published studies reported low and decreasing rates of CTO PCI complications over time, despite increasing success rates (31)....
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...Non-expert centres would have affected the assessment of the procedural benefit as failed procedures carry a higher complication rate and would bias results in terms of persistence of symptoms.(23) The limitation to expert centres also lead to bias against enrolment of highly symptomatic patients, as the operator was convinced of the benefit of PCI for CTOs based on available clinical evidence....
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...Proximal cap ambiguity 447 (36) 353 (33) 94 (53) <0....
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...ch 488 (39) 366 (38) 31 (35) 91 (44) 447 (36) 290 (30) 32 (36) 125 (60)...
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...The risks of CTO PCI are reported to be decreasing over time (23) and similar to non-CTO PCI....
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...Nonetheless, the frequency of perforation and clinical perforation is higher than previously reported by both hybrid and nonhybrid operators (23)....
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...Due to its conservative or “worst-case scenario” estimates, a randomeffects model as described by DerSimonian and Laird (8) was used to obtain a summary estimate and 95% confidence intervals (CI)....
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