%0 Journal Article %T Scoring systems for chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention: if you fail to prepare you are preparing to fail %A Karatasakis, Aris %A Danek, Barbara Anna %A Brilakis, Emmanouil S. %J Journal of Thoracic Disease %D 2016 %B 2016 %9 %! Scoring systems for chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention: if you fail to prepare you are preparing to fail %K %X While the benefit of chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has not yet been demonstrated in randomized controlled trials, several observational studies have shown that, as compared with failed procedures, successful CTO PCI is associated with significant clinical benefit (1). %U https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/9082 %V 8 %N 9 %P E1096-E1099 %@ 2077-6624