Collateral Circulation in Chronic Total Occlusions: A Marker of Hope or Hype?

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¹ PERFUSE Study Group, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: mgibson@bidmc.harvard.edu.
² PERFUSE Study Group, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

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C Michael Gibson et al. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2017.

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. 2017 May 8;10(9):915-917.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2017.03.009.

¹ PERFUSE Study Group, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: mgibson@bidmc.harvard.edu.
² PERFUSE Study Group, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Keywords: ST-segment elevation MI; chronic total occlusion; collaterals; percutaneous coronary intervention; stent.

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Impact of Collateral Circulation on Survival in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With a Concomitant Chronic Total Occlusion.
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