Impact of a Chronic Total Coronary Occlusion on the Incidence of Appropriate Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Shocks and Mortality: A Substudy of the Dutch Outcome in ICD Therapy (DO-IT)) Registry.
Anna van VeelenTom E VerstraelenYvemarie B O SomsenJoëlle EliasIvo M van DongenPeter Paul H M DelnoyMarcoen F ScholtenLucas V A BoersmaAlexander H MaassSipke StrikwerdaMehran FirouziCornelis P AllaartKevin VernooyRobert W GraussRaymond TukkiePaul KnaapenAeilko H ZwindermanMarcel G W DijkgraafBimmer E P M ClaessenMarit van BarreveldArthur A M WildeJosé P S Henriquesnull nullPublished in: Journal of the American Heart Association (2024)
Within this nationwide prospective registry of primary prevention ICD recipients, the presence of an unrevascularized CTO was an independent predictor for the composite outcome of all-cause mortality and appropriate ICD shocks.