Dimitrios Karmpaliotis, MD, PhD

Emmanouil S. Brilakis , MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI;

Mitul P. Patel , MD;

Omer Goktekin , MD;

James W. Choi , MD;

Imre Ungi , MD, PhD;

Evangelia Vemmou , MD;

Bahadir Simsek , MD;

Ilias Nikolakopoulos , MD;

Spyridon Kostantinis , MD;

Jaikirshan J. Khatri , MD;

Paul Poommipanit , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Khaldoon Alaswad , MD;

Sevket Gorgulu , MD;

Oleg Krestyaninov , MD;

Nidal Abi Rafeh , MD;

Khalid O. Tammam , MD, PhD;

Ahmed M. ElGuindy , MD, MSc, FRCP;

Ioannis Tsiafoutis , MD;

Michalis Koutouzis , MD, PhD;

Basem Elbarouni , MD;

Mechanical Circulatory Support in Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights From a Multicenter U.S. Registry

There are limited data on the association of operator volume with the outcomes of chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We analyzed the association between operator volume and procedural outcomes of 7035...

There are limited data on the...

08/05/2022

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

02/25/2018

Khaldoon Alaswad , MD;

Michael R. Wyman , MD;

Emmanouil S. Brilakis , MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI;

Nicholas J. Lembo , MD;

Jeffrey W. Moses , MD;

Anthony H. Doing , MD;

Ziad A. Ali , MD, DPhil;

David E. Kandzari , MD;

Craig A. Thompson , MD, MMSc;

Manish A. Parikh , MD;

William W. O'Neill , MD;

Catalin Toma , MD;

Aris Karatasakis , MD;

James W. Choi , MD;

Barbara Anna Danek , MD;

Mir Babar Basir , MD, DO;

Mohammad Alqarqaz , MD;

Impact of Chronic Total Occlusions on Revascularization Scores and Outcome Prediction

Ehtisham Mahmud , MD;

William L. Lombardi , MD;

Mitul P. Patel , MD;

Santiago Garcia , MD;

We examined the characteristics and outcomes of 1598 CTO-PCIs. Despite more complex clinical and angiographic characteristics, we found that elective use of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) in high-risk patients was associated with...

We examined the characteristics...

02/25/2018

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

03/15/2017

Roxana Mehran , MD;

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Bjorn Redfors , MD, PhD;

Philippe Généreux , MD;

Girma Minalu Ayele , PhD;

Dominic P. Francese , MPH;

Adriano Caixeta , MD, PhD;

Emmanouil S. Brilakis , MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI;

Gregg W. Stone , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

This study evaluates the contribution of chronic total occlusion (CTO)-related SYNTAX score (SS) to the overall SS for patients with CTO and compares the traditional SS to a simplified variant.

This study evaluates the...

03/15/2017

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Research

10/13/2022

Santiago Garcia , MD;

Anastasios Milkas , MD, PhD;

Byeong-Keuk Kim , MD, PhD;

M. Nicholas Burke , MD;

Nidal Abi Rafeh , MD;

Jaikirshan J. Khatri , MD;

Lorenzo Azzalini , MD, PhD, MSc;

Kevin J. Croce , MD, PhD;

Michael S. Megaly , MD, MS;

Khaldoon Alaswad , MD;

Amirali Masoumi , MD;

Wissam A. Jaber , MD;

Kambis Mashayekhi , MD;

William J. Nicholson , MD;

Margaret B. McEntegart , MD, PhD, BSc(Hons), MBChB;

Andrea Gagnor , MD;

Seung-Whan Lee , MD, PhD;

Georgios Sianos , MD, PhD;

Scott A. Harding , MD, RT(R)(CV);

Alexandre Avran , MD, PhD;

Yangsoo Jang , MD, PhD;

Emmanouil S. Brilakis , MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI;

Darshan Doshi , MD, MS;

Etsuo Tsuchikane , MD, PhD;

Bahadir Simsek , MD;

Hsien-Li Kao , MD;

Commentary: CTO-PCI: An Emerging New Subspecialty in Interventional Cardiology

Carlo Di Mario , MD, PhD, FESC, FACC, FRCP;

Spyridon Kostantinis , MD;

Roberto Garbo , MD;

Alfredo Ruggero Galassi , MD;

Paul Poommipanit , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Khalid O. Tammam , MD, PhD;

Gerald S. Werner , MD, PhD;

Evangelia Vemmou , MD;

Masahisa Yamane , MD, PhD;

Eugene B. Wu , MD, DM;

Ilias Nikolakopoulos , MD;

Stéphane Rinfret , MD, SM;

Paul Knaapen , MD, PhD;

Chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) can improve patient symptoms, but it remains controversial whether it impacts subsequent clinical outcomes.

Chronic total occlusion (CTO)...

10/13/2022

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Commentary

02/24/2015

The Impact of Age and Sex on In-Hospital Outcomes of Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Philip Green , MD;

CTO-PCI has emerged as a new subspecialty of interventional cardiology; modern CTO operators have set a new benchmark for CTO success rates of above 90%. With appropriate training and dissemination of the hybrid approach to new operators in...

CTO-PCI has emerged as a new...

02/24/2015

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

01/15/2017

James W. Choi , MD;

Ehtisham Mahmud , MD;

Mitul P. Patel , MD;

Khaldoon Alaswad , MD;

Jeffrey W. Moses , MD;

Ziad A. Ali , MD, DPhil;

Manish A. Parikh , MD;

Aris Karatasakis , MD;

Michael R. Wyman , MD;

Barbara Anna Danek , MD;

J. Aaron Grantham , MD;

Nicholas J. Lembo , MD;

Anthony H. Doing , MD;

Emmanouil S. Brilakis , MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI;

Craig A. Thompson , MD, MMSc;

Barry F. Uretsky , MD;

Distal Radial Access in Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights From the PROGRESS-CTO Registry

Rahel Iwnetu , MD;

William L. Lombardi , MD;

David E. Kandzari , MD;

Catalin Toma , MD;

We sought to determine the effect of age and sex on procedural outcomes and efficiency of chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention.

We sought to determine the...

01/15/2017

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

09/01/2021

Ioannis Tsiafoutis , MD;

Nicholas J. Lembo , MD;

Michalis Koutouzis , MD, PhD;

Anthony H. Doing , MD;

Abdul M. Sheikh , MD;

Catalin Toma , MD;

Mohamed Omer , MD;

James W. Choi , MD;

Iosif Xenogiannis , MD;

Philip Dattilo , MD;

Hector Tamez , MD;

Evangelia Vemmou , MD;

Brian K. Jefferson , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Habib Samady , MD;

Ilias Nikolakopoulos , MD;

Taral N. Patel , MD;

Ziad A. Ali , MD, DPhil;

Emmanouil S. Brilakis , MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI;

Santiago Garcia , MD;

Manish A. Parikh , MD;

M. Nicholas Burke , MD;

Jaikirshan J. Khatri , MD;

Khaldoon Alaswad , MD;

The Efficacy and Safety of the ‚ÄúHybrid‚Äù Approach to Coronary Chronic Total Occlusions: Insights From a Contemporary Multicenter US Registry and Comparison With Prior Studies

Basem Elbarouni , MD;

Wissam A. Jaber , MD;

Barry F. Uretsky , MD;

Shuaib M. Abdullah , MD;

Dr. Nikolakopoulos, et al. compared the clinical, angiographic, and procedural characteristics of 120 CTO-PCIs performed via dRA access with 2625 CTO-PCIs performed via proximal radial access (pRA) in a large, multicenter registry.

Dr. Nikolakopoulos, et al....

09/01/2021

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

09/08/2014

Rohan V. Menon , BS , MD;

Harold Carlson , MD;

Emmanouil S. Brilakis , MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI;

Santiago Garcia , MD;

David E. Kandzari , MD;

Khaldoon Alaswad , MD;

Anna P. Kotsia , MD, PhD;

Georgios Christopoulos , MD;

J. Aaron Grantham , MD;

Nicholas J. Lembo , MD;

Craig A. Thompson , MD, MMSc;

Vishal G. Patel , MD;