Roopali Khanna, Chandra M. Pandey, Sonam Bedi, Fauzia Ashfaq, Pravin Goel
AsiaIntervention 2018;4:18-25, DOI: 10.4244/AIJ-D-17-00025
Abstract
Aims: The aim of this study was to derive a weighted score model predicting success/failure of antegrade wire crossing in chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
Methods and results: Four hundred and four consecutive CTO cases (408 lesions) undergoing CTO-PCI between January 2009 and March 2015 were included. Data were divided into two sets, namely “derivation” and “validation”, in a 70:30 ratio. The score was derived using multivariate analysis to identify independent predictors of wire crossing failure from the derivation set (n=285 lesions) and validated on the remaining 123 lesions (validation set). The overall procedural success rate was 83.6%. Independent predictors of CTO-PCI failure and their contribution to the weighted score were a blunt stump (beta coefficient 2.12), length of occlusion >20 mm (beta coefficient 1.71), presence of calcification (beta coefficient 0.72), presence of tortuosity (beta coefficient 1.06) and collateral with Rentrop grade 2-4 and >4 were classified as low, intermediate and high levels of difficulty for CTO-PCI success and were associated with 98%, 74.2%, and 42.5% (p<0.0001), respectively, of antegrade wire crossing success in the derivation set. This was also validated on the validation set with CTO success in the three derived difficulty levels being 100%, 82.4% and 48.4%, respectively.
Conclusions: Our weighted angiographic CTO score is a strong predictor of final antegrade wire crossing success and could be used in day-to-day clinical practice of CTO interventions.
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