Highlights
- •CTO-revascularization is associated with improved long-term survival over OMT.
- •Survival benefit is independent of revascularization strategy.
- •Failed CTO-PCI showed a comparable all-cause mortality compared to OMT.
Abstract
Background
The percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for chronic total occlusions (CTO) remains
debated. Therefore the aim of this large-scale observational multi-center registry
was to compare the long-term outcome of CTO patients undergoing different therapeutic
approaches comparing successful CTO revascularization either by PCI or coronary artery
bypass graft (CABG), failed CTO-PCI and optimal medical therapy (OMT) alone.
Methods and results
A total of 6630 CTO patients were enrolled from two high-volume centers to compare
different treatment strategies. All procedures were performed by high-volume CTO operators
in tertiary university hospital. Successful CTO-PCI was performed in 3906 patients,
failed CTO-PCI in 1479 patients, 412 patients underwent CABG surgery and 833 patients
were treated with OMT. During the 5-year follow-up period, 1019 (15%) patients died.
Kaplan-Meier analysis unveiled a significantly improved long-term outcome for CTO
patients undergoing revascularization either by PCI or by CABG compared to patients
with failed CTO-PCI or OMT alone (log-rank P < 0.001). In the multivariate Cox-regression analysis successful CTO-PCI was associated
with significantly improved long-term outcome compared to patients under OMT (adj.
HR 0.39, 95%CI 0.33–0.45, P < 0.001) or CABG (adj. HR 0.68, 95%CI 0.53–0.86, P = 0.002) independent of clinical confounders encompassing age, BMI, diabetes, kidney
function and left ventricular function.
Conclusions
This study showed an improved long-term outcome for CTO revascularization compared
to optimal medical therapy, independent from revascularization mode, with the highest
survival rate in patients undergoing successful CTO-PCI.
Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: March 14, 2020
Accepted:
March 9,
2020
Received in revised form:
March 7,
2020
Received:
December 29,
2019
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