A Clinical and Angiographic Scoring System to Predict the Probability of Successful First-Attempt Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients With Total Chronic Coronary Occlusion

• Published in: JACC. Cardiovascular interventions 2015-10, Vol.8 (12), p.1540-1548
• Main Authors: Alessandrino, Giuseppe, MD, Chevalier, Bernard, MD, Lefèvre, Thierry, MD, Sanguineti, Francesca, MD, Garot, Philippe, MD, Unterseeh, Thierry, MD, Hovasse, Thomas, MD, Morice, Marie-Claude, MD, Louvard, Yves, MD
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Aged; Cardiovascular; Chi-Square Distribution; Chronic Disease; chronic total occlusion; Coronary Angiography; Coronary Occlusion - diagnostic imaging; Coronary Occlusion - mortality; Coronary Occlusion - therapy; Coronary Vessels - diagnostic imaging; Decision Support Techniques; Female; Humans; Logistic Models; Male; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; Odds Ratio; percutaneous coronary intervention; Percutaneous Coronary Intervention - adverse effects; Percutaneous Coronary Intervention - mortality; predictive score; Predictive Value of Tests; Prospective Studies; Reproducibility of Results; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; Treatment Outcome
• ISSN: 1936-8798; 1876-7605
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2015.07.009

Abstract Objectives This study sought to develop a scoring model predicting percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) success in chronic total occlusions. Background Coronary chronic total occlusion is the lesion subtype in which angioplasty is most likely to fail. Chronic total occlusion for PCI (CTO-PCI) failure is associated with higher 1-year mortality and major adverse cardiac events compared with successful CTO-PCI. Although several independent predictors of final procedural success have been identified, no study has yet produced a model predicting final procedural outcome. Methods Data from 1,657 consecutive patients who underwent a first-attempt CTO-PCI were prospectively collected. The scoring model was developed in a derivation cohort of 1,143 patients (70%) using a multivariable stepwise analysis to identify independent predictors of CTO-PCI failure. The model was then validated in the remaining 514 (30%). Results The overall procedural success rate was 72.5%. Independent predictors of CTO-PCI failure were identified and included in the clinical and lesion-related score (CL-score) as follows: previous coronary artery bypass graft surgery +1.5 (odds ratio [OR]: 2.49, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.56 to 3.96), previous myocardial infarction +1 (OR: 1.6, 95% CI: 1.17 to 2.2), severe lesion calcification +2 (OR: 2.72, 95% CI :1.78 to 4.16), longer CTOs +1.5 (≥20 mm OR: 2.04, 95% CI: 1.54 to 2.7), non–left anterior descending coronary artery location +1 (OR: 1.56, 95% CI: 1.14 to 2.15), and blunt stump morphology +1 (OR: 1.39, 95% CI: 1.05 to 1.81). Score values of 0 to 1, >1 and