Reply to the letter to the editor "The impact of chronic total occlusion in non-infarct-related coronary arteries"

Mohammed Saad, Georg Fuernau, Ingo Eitel, Holger Thiele

Abstract

We appreciate the interest shown by Chi et al in our article “Prognostic impact of non-culprit chronic total occlusions in infarct-related cardiogenic shock: results of the randomised IABP-SHOCK II trial”1. In their Letter to the Editor “The impact of chronic total occlusion in non-infarct-related coronary arteries”2, Chi et al raise the issue of the presence of coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO) and its effect on the occurrence of ventricular arrhythmia.

Chi et al have conducted a meta-analysis on the impact of CTOs on arrhythmic events and mortality and found that the presence of CTOs was ...
OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftEuroIntervention
Jahrgang15
Ausgabenummer3
Seiten (von - bis)e299-e230
Seitenumfang2
ISSN1774-024X
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 01.06.2019

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