Coronary interventions

Clinical outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention for in-stent chronic total occlusion

EuroIntervention 2020;16:472-479. DOI: 10.4244/EIJ-D-19-00650

Yong-Hoon Yoon
Yong-Hoon Yoon1, MD; Pil Hyung Lee2, MD; Seung-Whan Lee2, MD; Osung Kwon2, MD; Kyusup Lee2, MD; Do-Yoon Kang2, MD; Jung-Min Ahn2, MD; Duk-Woo Park2, MD; Soo-Jin Kang2, MD; Young-Hak Kim2, MD; Cheol Whan Lee2, MD; Seong-Wook Park2, MD; Seung-Jung Park2, MD
1. Division of Cardiology, Chungnam National University Hospital, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, South Korea; 2. Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Aims: The aim of this study was to compare percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) outcomes in relation to stent optimisation profiles between in-stent chronic total occlusions (CTOs) and de novo CTOs.

Methods and results: We evaluated 1,516 consecutive patients who underwent PCI for 147 in-stent CTOs (9.3%) and 1,439 de novo CTOs between 2007 and 2018. The primary endpoint was target vessel failure (TVF) consisting of a composite of cardiac death, target vessel-related myocardial infarction, or target vessel revascularisation. The final post-stenting intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) images were analysed. Target lesion complexity reflected by the Japanese CTO score was similar, albeit calcification was more prevalent in de novo CTOs, whereas occlusion length >20 mm was more frequent in in-stent CTOs. The technical success (88.4% vs 87.5%, p=0.84) and in-hospital adverse event (1.4% vs 3.6%, p=0.26) rates were similar between CTO types. Among those who received drug-eluting stents, the five-year TVF (11.0% vs 10.7%, p=0.99) and target vessel revascularisation (4.2% vs 3.7%, p=0.81) rates were similar between groups. Total stent length, minimum stent area (5.4±1.8 vs 5.5±1.8 mm2, p=0.77), and maximal plaque burden of the reference segments were largely comparable between groups.

Conclusions: In-stent CTO PCI with drug-eluting stents optimised by IVUS guidance offers as acceptable long-term clinical results as those achieved in de novo CTOs. 

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