Background: The presence of a chronic total occlusion (CTO) and severe
left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction are known negative prognostic factors
in patients with coronary artery disease. Several studies have examined the
effect of CTO revascularization on mortality, symptoms, occurrence of myocardial
infarction (MI), and cardiac function in patients with normal or reduced LV
function. However, the effect of CTO revascularization on heart failure-related
events in patients with LV dysfunction, such as heart failure hospitalization
(HFH), the occurrence of atrial fibrillation (AF), and a worsening renal function
(WRF), has not yet been evaluated. To assess the
success rate and safety of CTO percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) in
coronary patients with LV ejection fractions of
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Heart Failure-Related Outcomes in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction Undergoing Percutaneous Chronic Total Occlusion Revascularization
Pierluigi Lesizza1, Lennert Minten1,2, Ella Poels3, Maarten Vanhaverbeke1,4, Gianluca Castaldi5, Keir McCutcheon2, Daan Cottens3, Carlo Zivelonghi5, Pierfrancesco Agostoni5, Christophe Dubois1,2, Jo Dens3, Johan Bennett1,2,*
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Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
2
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
3
Department of Cardiology, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, 3600 Genk, Belgium
4
Department of Cardiology, AZ Delta, 8800 Roeselare, Belgium
5
HartCentrum, Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen (ZNA) Middelheim, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium
*Correspondence: johan.bennett@uzleuven.be (Johan Bennett)
Rev. Cardiovasc. Med. 2023, 24(12), 345;
https://doi.org/10.31083/j.rcm2412345
Submitted: 1 July 2023 | Revised: 18 August 2023 | Accepted: 30 August 2023 | Published: 12 December 2023
(This article belongs to the Section Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics)
Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Abstract
Keywords
CTO PCI
LV dysfunction
heart failure
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