Research Article

Assessing the Clinical Influence of Chronic Total Occlusions (CTOs) Revascularization and the Impact of Vascularization Completeness on Patients with Left Ventricular (LV) Systolic Dysfunction

Table 3

Contrast of clinical results.

VariableSCR (n = 128)OMT (n = 117) value

MACCE39 (30.5)60 (51.3)0.001
All-cause death17 (13.3)28 (23.9)0.033
Cardiac mortality11 (8.6)21 (17.9)0.037
Rehospitalisation21 (16.4)54 (46.2)<0.001
Heart failure14 (10.9)32 (27.4)0.002
Target vessel revascularization2 (1.6)7 (6.0)0.134
Recurrent myocardial infarction4 (3.1)8 (6.8)0.239
Stroke2 (1.6)4 (3.4)0.599

VariableComplete revascularization (n = 41)Incomplete revascularization (n = 87) value

MACCE7 (17.1)32 (36.8)0.025
All-cause death2 (4.9)15 (17.2)0.091
Cardiac mortality0 (0)11 (12.6)0.041
Rehospitalisation6 (14.6)15 (17.2)0.802
Heart failure2 (4.9)12 (13.8)0.228
Target vessel revascularization1 (2.4)1 (1.1)1.000
Recurrent myocardial infarction1 (2.4)3 (3.4)1.000
Stroke0 (0)2 (2.3)0.83

Note. Data are expressed as numbers or proportions (%). Abbreviations: MACCE: major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events, a combination of ACD, cardiac mortality, relapse myocardium infarction, targeted vascular angiogenesis, rehospitalisation, cardiac failure, and stroke.