A comparison of procedural success rate and long-term clinical outcomes between in-stent restenosis chronic total occlusion and de novo chronic total occlusion using multicenter registry data.
Seung Hun LeeJae Young ChoJe Sang KimHyun Jong LeeJeong Hoon YangJae Hyoung ParkSoon Jun HongRak Kyeong ChoiSeung-Hyuk ChoiHyeon-Cheol GwonDo-Sun LimCheol-Woong YuPublished in: Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society (2019)
The procedural success rate was higher in the ISR CTO than the de novo CTO, especially in DES ISR CTO. However, irrespective of successful revascularization, the long-term clinical outcomes for the ISR CTO were significantly worse than those for the de novo CTO, in terms of MI and TLR.