Incidence, mechanisms, treatment, and outcomes of donor vessel injury during percutaneous coronary interventions for chronic total occlusion.
Spyridon KostantinisAthanasios RempakosBahadir SimsekJudit KaracsonyiSalman S AllanaKhaldoon AlaswadMir Babar BasirOleg KrestyaninovDimitrii KhelimskiiSevket GorguluRhian E DaviesStewart M BentonJaikirshan J KhatriPaul PoommipanitJames W ChoiWissam A JaberStephane RinfretWilliam NicholsonKarim M Al-AziziSrinivasa PotluriNazif AygulBulent B AltunkeserMichael KoutouzisYiannis TsiafoutisAnastasios MilkasAhmed M ElGuindyNidal Abi RafehOmer GoktekinOlga C MastrodemosBavana V RanganYader SandovalM Nicholas BurkeEmmanouil S BrilakisPublished in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2023)
Donor vessel injury, occurred in 0.35% of CTO PCIs performed by experienced operators, was mainly due to guide catheter-induced dissection or thrombosis and was associated with lower procedural success and higher MACE.