Gender differences in percutaneous coronary intervention for chronic total occlusions from the ERCTO study.
Alexandre AvranAndrea ZuffiCecilia GobbiAlessio GasperettiMarco SchiavoneGerald S WernerMashayekhi KambisNicolas BoudouAlfredo R GalassiGeorge SianosMoussa IdaliRoberto GarboAndrea GagnorGabriele GaspariniAlexander BufeLeszek BryniarskiArtis KalninsDaniel WeilenmannJaroslaw WojcikPierfrancesco AgostoniNenad Z BozinovicMauro CarlinoSergey FurkaloDavid Hildick-SmithLaurent DrogoulJulien LemoineAntonio SerraStefano CarugoImre UngiJoseph DensNicolaus ReifartJoseph CosmaVincenzo MalliaGiuseppe VadalàGiuseppe Biondi ZoccaiCarlo Di MarioPublished in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2023)
Women are understudied in contemporary CTO-PCI practice. Female sex is associated with higher procedural success after CTO-PCI, yet no sex differences were found in terms of in-hospital MACCEs. Female sex was associated with a higher rate of procedural complications.
Keyphrases
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- st segment elevation myocardial infarction
- acute coronary syndrome
- acute myocardial infarction
- coronary artery disease
- antiplatelet therapy
- st elevation myocardial infarction
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- healthcare
- atrial fibrillation
- polycystic ovary syndrome
- emergency department
- coronary artery bypass
- risk factors
- pregnancy outcomes
- pregnant women
- quality improvement
- breast cancer risk