Role of CT scan for the successful recanalization of chronic total occlusion; a randomized comparsion between 3D CT-guided PCI vs. conventional treatment (CT-CTO trial)
- Conditions
- Diseases of the circulatory system
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 404
1. Patients (age=19 years) with CTO (TIMI = 0 and estimated duration of occlusion at least 3 months)
2. Typical symptomatic angina or positive stress test in various functional studies evaluating ischemia
3. Eligible patients for pre-procedural CT scan and coronary angiogram
1. Cardiogenic shock or ejection fraction < 25%
2. CTO lesions at DES restenosis or graft occlusion lesion
3. Significant left main stenosis
4. Retry of same CTO lesion within 2 weeks
5. Acute myocardial infarction within 48 hours
6. Hypersensitivity to aspirin, clopidogrel, or -limus families / or contraindication to antiplatelet agents
7. Kidney Creatinine figure = 2.0 mg/dL
8. Severe hepatic dysfunction (=3 times normal reference values)
9. Life expectancy < 1 years
10. Pregnant women or women with potential childbearing
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional Study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Successful CTO recanalization
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method composed of cardiovascular mortality, myocardial infarction, stent thrombosis, stroke or target vessel revascularization and major bleeding