TY - JOUR
T1 - Percutaneous Chronic Total Occlusion Revascularization. Program Development, Resource Utilization, and Economic Outcomes.
AU - Karmpaliotis, Dimitri
AU - Lembo, Nicholas J.
AU - Brilakis, Emmanouil S.
AU - Kandzari, David E.
PY - 2012/7
Y1 - 2012/7
N2 - Against the background of current data supporting indications for chronic total occlusion (CTO) revascularization and strategies that promote incrementally higher procedural success rates, this article introduces a multidisciplinary approach to CTO program development, establishes guidelines for the performance of safe and efficient CTO percutaneous coronary intervention, and reviews considerations related to resource utilization and economic outcomes with complex percutaneous coronary revascularization.
AB - Against the background of current data supporting indications for chronic total occlusion (CTO) revascularization and strategies that promote incrementally higher procedural success rates, this article introduces a multidisciplinary approach to CTO program development, establishes guidelines for the performance of safe and efficient CTO percutaneous coronary intervention, and reviews considerations related to resource utilization and economic outcomes with complex percutaneous coronary revascularization.
KW - Chronic total occlusion
KW - Percutaneous coronary intervention
KW - Resource utilization
KW - Revascularization
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U2 - 10.1016/j.iccl.2012.04.004
DO - 10.1016/j.iccl.2012.04.004
M3 - Review article
C2 - 28582024
AN - SCOPUS:84862856631
SN - 2211-7458
VL - 1
SP - 391
EP - 395
JO - Interventional Cardiology Clinics
JF - Interventional Cardiology Clinics
IS - 3
ER -