Does successful chronic total occlusion recanalization fail to improve long-term survival?

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Editorial

Masaki Tanabe. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther. 2017 Jun.

. 2017 Jun;7(Suppl 2):S95-S97.

doi: 10.21037/cdt.2017.01.03.

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Center, Department of Cardiology, Kyoto Okamoto Memorial Hospital, Kumiyama, Kyoto 611-0034, Japan.

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Successful Recanalization of Native Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion Is Not Associated With Improved Long-Term Survival.
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