Chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention in octogenarians and nonagenarians.
Evangelia VemmouKhaldoon AlaswadMitul PatelEhtisham MahmudJames W ChoiFarouc A JafferAnthony H DoingPhil DattiloDimitri KarmpaliotisOleg KrestyaninovDmitrii KhelimskiiIlias NikolakopoulosJudit KaracsonyiIosif XenogiannisSantiago GarciaM Nicholas BurkeNidal Abi RafehAhmed ElGuindyOmer GoktekinAbir AbdoBavana V RanganShuaib AbdullahEmmanouil S BrilakisPublished in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2021)
CTO PCI is feasible in octo- and nonagenarians, although success rates are lower, and the risk of complications is higher compared with younger patients, likely related to more comorbidities and higher coronary lesion complexity.
Keyphrases
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- coronary artery disease
- end stage renal disease
- acute myocardial infarction
- acute coronary syndrome
- st segment elevation myocardial infarction
- st elevation myocardial infarction
- newly diagnosed
- antiplatelet therapy
- chronic kidney disease
- coronary artery
- peritoneal dialysis
- risk factors
- heart failure