The Official Journal of EuroPCR and the European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (EAPCI)
CORONARY INTERVENTIONS
Clinical implications of periprocedural myocardial injury in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for chronic total occlusion: role of antegrade and retrograde crossing techniques
EuroIntervention 2018;13:2051-2059 published online September 2017. DOI: 10.4244/EIJ-D-17-00338
Aurel Toma1*, MD; Barbara E. Stähli2, MD; Cathérine Gebhard1, MD; Michael Gick1, MD; Jan Minners1, MD, PhD; Kambis Mashayekhi1, MD; Alexandre Avran3, MD; Miroslaw Ferenc1, MD; Heinz Joachim Buettner1, MD; Franz-Josef Neumann1, MD
1. Division of Cardiology and Angiology II, University Heart Center Freiburg - Bad Krozingen, Bad Krozingen, Germany; 2. Department of Cardiology, Charité Berlin - University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany; 3. Department of Cardiology
Aims: Periprocedural myocardial injury (PMI) is frequently observed after percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) for chronic total occlusion (CTO). We aimed to investigate the prognost