Prognostic value of chronic total occlusions detected on coronary computed tomographic angiography.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2019
Publication Title
Heart (British Cardiac Society)
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Data describing clinical relevance of chronic total occlusion (CTO) identified by coronary CT angiography (CCTA) have not been reported to date. We investigated the prognosis of CTO on CCTA.
METHODS: We identified 22 828 patients without prior known coronary artery disease (CAD), who were followed for a median of 26 months. Based on CCTA, coronary lesions were graded as normal (no atherosclerosis), non-obstructive (1%-49%), moderate-to-severe (50%-99%) or totally occluded (100%). All-cause mortality, and major adverse cardiac events defined as mortality, non-fatal myocardial infarction and late coronary revascularisation (≥90 days after CCTA) were assessed.
RESULTS: The distribution of patients with normal coronaries, non-obstructive CAD, moderate-to-severe CAD and CTO was 10 034 (44%), 7965 (34.9%), 4598 (20.1%) and 231 (1%), respectively. The mortality rate per 1000 person-years of CTO patients was non-significantly different from patients with moderate-to-severe CAD (22.95; 95% CI 12.71 to 41.45 vs 14.46; 95% CI 12.34 to 16.94; p=0.163), and significantly higher than of those with normal coronaries and non-obstructive CAD (p
CONCLUSIONS: The detection of CTO on non-invasive CCTA is associated with increased rate of late revascularisation but similar 2-year mortality as compared with moderate-to-severe CAD.
TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT01443637.
Volume
105
Issue
3
First Page
196
Last Page
203
Recommended Citation
Opolski MP, Gransar H, Lu Y, Achenbach S, Al-Mallah MH, Andreini D, Bax JJ, Berman DS, Budoff MJ, Cademartiri F, Callister TQ, Chang HJ, Chinnaiyan K, Chow BJ, Cury RC, DeLago A, Feuchtner GM, Hadamitzky M, Hausleiter J, Kaufmann PA, Kim YJ, Leipsic JA, Maffei EC, Marques H, Pontone G, Raff G, Rubinshtein R, Shaw LJ, Villines TC, Gomez M, Jones EC, Peña JM, Min JK, Lin FY. Prognostic value of chronic total occlusions detected on coronary computed tomographic angiography. Heart. 2019 Feb;105(3):196-203. doi: 10.1136/heartjnl-2017-312907. Epub 2018 Jul 30. PMID: 30061160.
ISSN
1468-201X
PubMed ID
30061160