LONG TERM SURVIVAL BENEFIT OF CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION REVASCULARIZATION VERSUS CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT IN ELDERLY PATIENTS

Eduardo Flores,Victoria Martin-Yuste,Ignacio Ferreira-González,Guillem Caldentey,Sara Vazquez,Rodolfo San Antonio Dharandas,Gustavo Jiménez,Xavier Freixa,Ander Regueiro,Manel Sabaté

LONG TERM SURVIVAL BENEFIT OF CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION REVASCULARIZATION VERSUS CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT IN ELDERLY PATIENTS

2018

Eduardo Flores
Victoria Martin-Yuste
Ignacio Ferreira-González
Guillem Caldentey
Sara Vazquez
Rodolfo San Antonio Dharandas
Gustavo Jiménez
Xavier Freixa
Ander Regueiro
Manel Sabaté

Chronic total occlusions (CTO) are present in > 30% of elderly patients with myocardial ischemia. There is still controversy regarding the best therapeutic approach in this setting. To compare long term survival of CTO revascularization (PCI or CABG) versus medical treatment (MT) in the old

Keywords:

Revascularization
Ischemia
Internal medicine
Cardiology
Medicine
Occlusion
medical treatment
Therapeutic approach
total occlusion
conservative treatment
long term survival
Conventional PCI
Diabetes mellitus

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