Athanasios Rempakos, MD

Guidewires and microcatheters are critical to the success of chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We examined equipment utilization in 11,202 CTO-PCIs performed in 10,952 patients at 42 United States (US)...

Guidewires and microcatheters...

02/01/2023

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

Use of Bivalirudin for Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Intervention: Insights From the PROGRESS-CTO Registry

04/01/2023

Dmitrii Khelimskii , MD;

Judit Karacsonyi , MD, PhD;

Brian K. Jefferson , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Barry F. Uretsky , MD;

Taral N. Patel , MD;

Mitul P. Patel , MD;

Jaikirshan J. Khatri , MD;

Khaldoon Alaswad , MD;

Wissam A. Jaber , MD;

Louis Verreault-Julien , MD, MPH;

Omer Goktekin , MD;

William J. Nicholson , MD;

Athanasios Rempakos , MD;

Bahadir Simsek , MD;

Spyridon Kostantinis , MD;

Salman S. Allana , MD;

Paul Poommipanit , MD, FACC, FSCAI;

Sevket Gorgulu , MD;

Stéphane Rinfret , MD, SM;

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

Oleg Krestyaninov , MD;

The authors compare clinical outcomes – including major adverse cardiac events and vascular complications – of CTO-PCIs performed using bivalirudin vs unfractionated heparin.

The authors compare clinical...

04/01/2023

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

Artificial Intelligence for Predicting Primary Antegrade Wiring Success of Chronic Total Occlusion Crossing

09/30/2024

Michaella Alexandrou , MD;

Athanasios Rempakos , MD;

;

Dimitrios Strepkos , MD;

Pedro E.P. Carvalho , MD;

Ahmed Al-Ogaili , MD;

;

Ioannis Tsiafoutis , MD;

Khaldoon Alaswad , MD;

;

Farouc A. Jaffer , MD, PhD;

;

Lorenzo Azzalini , MD, PhD, MSc;

Sevket Gorgulu , MD;

Jaikirshan J. Khatri , MD;

Sripal Bangalore , MD, MHA;

;

Olga C. Mastrodemos , BA;

M. Nicholas Burke , MD;

Yader Sandoval , MD;

;

The authors compared the predictions for successful antegrade wiring of chronic total occlusion lesions made by interventional cardiologists with those from a machine learning model.

The authors compared the...

09/30/2024

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Brief Communication

External Validation of the JR-CTO Score in Retrograde Chronic Total Occlusion Intervention: From the PROGRESS-CTO Registry

08/14/2024

Pedro E.P. Carvalho , MD;

Athanasios Rempakos , MD;

;

Michaella Alexandrou , MD;

Dimitrios Strepkos , MD;

;

Olga C. Mastrodemos , BA;

Ahmed Al-Ogaili , MD;

M. Nicholas Burke , MD;

Yader Sandoval , MD;

;

The authors evaluated the JR-CTO score’s performance in patients treated at 44 centers between 2013 and 2024 as part of the Prospective Global Registry for the Study of CTO Intervention (PROGRESS-CTO).

The authors evaluated the JR-CTO...

08/14/2024

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

Peripheral Artery Disease in Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

08/09/2024

Michaella Alexandrou , MD;

Athanasios Rempakos , MD;

;

Ahmed Al-Ogaili , MD;

Pedro E.P. Carvalho , MD;

Dimitrios Strepkos , MD;

James W. Choi , MD;

;

Khaldoon Alaswad , MD;

;

Farouc A. Jaffer , MD, PhD;

Philip Dattilo , MD;

Anthony H. Doing , MD;

Lorenzo Azzalini , MD, PhD, MSc;

Nazif Aygul , MD;

Raj Chandwaney , MD;

;

Sevket Gorgulu , MD;

Jaikirshan J. Khatri , MD;

Laura D. Young , MD;

Oleg Krestyaninov , MD;

Dmitrii Khelimskii , MD;

;

Omer Goktekin , MD;

James D. Flaherty , MD;

Daniel R. Schimmel , MD, MS;

Keith H. Benzuly , MD;

Mahmut Uluganyan , MD;

Ramazan Ozdemir , MD;

Yousif Ahmad , MRCP, PhD, FSCAI, FACC, BMBS;

;

Olga C. Mastrodemos , BA;

M. Nicholas Burke , MD;

;

Yader Sandoval , MD;

;

The authors examined a multicenter registry of CTO PCI to explore the prevalence of peripheral artery disease and its effects on techniques used during the procedure and in-hospital outcomes.

The authors examined a...

08/09/2024

Journal of Invasive Cardiology