Impact of chronic total occlusions on outcomes of patients with acute myocardial infarction undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: A propensity-score matched analysis using the National Inpatient Sample database
database[Title] 2022-07-03
Summary:
CONCLUSIONS: In this propensity-score matched analysis of a large US inpatient database, the presence of CTOs in AMI patients undergoing PCI identified a higher risk cohort with in higher in-hospital mortality, longer hospital length of stay and higher hospitalization cost.