Predictors of long-term adverse outcomes after successful chronic total occlusion intervention: physiology or morphology?
Karim ElbashaSultan AlotaibiHajo HeyerNader MankeriousRalph ToelgVolker GeistGert RichardtAbdelhakim AllaliPublished in: Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society (2023)
We found a limited prognostic value of immediate physiological assessment using QFR after successful CTO intervention. Pre-procedure morphological characteristics of CTO lesions using tvSS can play a role in predicting long-term adverse events.