Aortocoronary dissection during percutaneous coronary interventions for chronic total occlusion: Insights from the PROGRESS-CTO registry.
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 NicholsonNazif AygulBulent Behlul AltunkeserAhmed 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)
Aortocoronary dissection occurred in 0.2% of CTO PCIs performed by experienced operators, was associated with lower technical and procedural success, and was treated most commonly with ostial stenting. None of the patients required emergency cardiac surgery.