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Xi Wu1, Jie Cai1, Qizhou Zhang1
1Xiangtan Central Hospital, Hunan, Xiangtan 411100, China.
Objectives:
This paper intends to assess the clinical influence of chronic total occlusions (CTOs), revascularization, and the impact of vascularization completeness on patients with left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction.
Background:
The roles of CTO vascularization in clinical benefits remain conflicting. In addition, data concerning the different results of CTO vascularization and vascularization completeness according to LV systole function were assessed.
Methods:
From an overall 918 consecutive patients with at least one CTO, 281 patients with ejection fraction (EF) ≤40% accepted coronary angiographic analysis between Jan 1, 2012, and Dec 31, 2020, and 29 patients were excluded. Subsequently, 261 patients were grouped into the successful CTO-PCI revascularization group (SCR, n = 135) and the optimal medical therapy group (OMT, n = 126). The prognosis influence of successfully finished CTO-PCI and complete revascularization on survival was evaluated. The primary endpoint was cardiac mortality, and the secondary endpoints were major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE).
Results:
After a median follow-up time of 38.02 months, the cardiac mortality (p=0.037) and MACCE (p=0.001) were more remarkable in the OMT group than in the SCR group. Moreover, patients with CTO-PCI had survival benefits from complete revascularization for MACCE (p=0.025) and cardiac mortality (p=0.041). Based on multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression analysis, age ≧ 75 years (HR: 3.443, 95% CI 1.719-6.897, p < 0.001) predicted a worse probability of cardiac mortality. Additionally, previous PCI (HR: 1.592, 95% CI 1.034-2.449, p=0.035) and previous MI (HR: 1.971, 95% CI 1.258-3.088, p=0.003) predicted a worse probability of MACCE, and SCR (HR: 0.499, 95% CI 0.320-0.776, p=0.002) was a protection predictor of MACCE.
Conclusion:
In patients with LV systole dysfunction (EF ≤ 40%), successfully finished CTO-PCI is related to long-term survival benefits. The benefits were more remarkable in patients with complete coronary revascularization (CCR).
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