Prognostic impact of non-culprit chronic total occlusion over time in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention.
Dejan MilasinovicDjordje MladenovicStefan ZaharijevZlatko MehmedbegovicJelena MarinkovicDario JelicVladimir ZobenicaMarija RadomirovicVladimir DedovicAndrija PavlovicMilan DobricSinisa StojkovicMilika AsaninVladan VukcevicGoran StankovicPublished in: European heart journal. Acute cardiovascular care (2021)
Non-culprit CTO is independently associated with mortality over 5 years after primary PCI for STEMI, with a constant annual two-fold increase in the risk of death beyond the first year of follow-up.
Keyphrases
- st elevation myocardial infarction
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- st segment elevation myocardial infarction
- acute coronary syndrome
- acute myocardial infarction
- coronary artery disease
- antiplatelet therapy
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- cardiovascular events
- atrial fibrillation
- coronary artery bypass
- heart failure
- type diabetes
- risk factors