Review and Meta-Analysis Of Clinical Outcomes of CTO-PCI Patients

Deepak Bhatt, MD, MPH, JIC Editor-in-Chief, and Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD discuss the largest meta-analysis to date investigating the impact of chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention on clinical events during long-term follow-up. The analysis (Simsek et al), included 58 publications containing a total of 45,527 who underwent CTO-PCI.