Editorial


Predictive scores in chronic total occlusions percutaneous recanalization: only fashionable or really useful?

Marouane Boukhris, Kambis Mashayekhi, Zied Ibn Elhadj, Alfredo R. Galassi

Abstract

Chronic total occlusions (CTOs) remain one of the last challenges in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). During the last decade, following the Japanese pioneers, the interest of interventionalists’ community in CTO PCI has dramatically increased leading to an important development in equipment and techniques (1,2), and a growing expertise among dedicated operators, both resulting in increased success rates (3).

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