TY - JOUR AU - Karatasakis, Aris AU - Danek, Barbara Anna AU - Brilakis, Emmanouil S. PY - 2016 TI - Scoring systems for chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention: if you fail to prepare you are preparing to fail JF - Journal of Thoracic Disease; Vol 8, No 9 (September 28, 2016): Journal of Thoracic Disease Y2 - 2016 KW - N2 - 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). UR - https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/9082