Registry for the Safety and Success of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention of Chronic Total Occlusion in Ain Shams University Hospitals

Abstract

ercutaneous coronary intervention for chronic totally occluded coronary vessels is a rapidly evolving field, is considered the last frontier of interventional cardiology. In recent years, the development of new techniques and equipment, as well as the training of specialized personnel, increased their success rates, Although the number of randomized and controlled studies is still limited, results from large multicenter registries allow us to safely offer this intervention to patients, as another treatment options along with the optimized drug treatment and myocardial revascularization surgery. This study aimed to develop an electronic registry for all patients who had percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for chronic total occlusions (CTOs) at Ain Shams University Hospitals (ASUHs) over a period of eight months. To collect data about CTO treatment strategies aiming to analyze the potential risk factors and their effect on the different treatment strategies and to predict the outcomes regarding technical and procedural success during the hospital stay. This study is an electronic Registry implementation study on all patients who had Coronary Angiography that shows viable CTO vessels and underwent CTO PCI at Ain shams University Hospitals during eight months of activity from the first of July 2020 till the end of February 2021.