Chronic total occlusion in an infarct-related coronary artery and the risk of appropriate ICD therapies.
Andrea Di MarcoIgnasi AngueraLuis TeruelGuillem MuntaneNiall G CampbellDavid J FoxBenjamin BrownChris SkeneNeil DavidsonValentina LeonPaolo DallaglioHind ElzeinElena Garcia-RomeroJoan Antoni Gomez-HospitalAngel CequierPublished in: Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology (2017)
IRA-CTO is an independent predictor of appropriate ICD therapies, including appropriate ICD shocks. This association is consistent across all the subgroups analyzed. Patients with IRA-CTO have a very high risk of appropriate ICD therapies. These findings may help improving risk stratification as well as the management of ventricular arrhythmias in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy.