Thousand Registries Are Not Worth a Randomized Trial: Also True for Chronic Total Occlusions?

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¹ Structural Interventional Cardiology Division, University Hospital Careggi Florence, Italy; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: carlo.dimario@unifi.it.
² Structural Interventional Cardiology Division, University Hospital Careggi Florence, Italy.
³ Medizinische Klinik I (Cardiology & Intensive care), Klinikum Darmstadt GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany.

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Carlo Di Mario et al. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2017.

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. 2017 Aug 14;10(15):1535-1537.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2017.06.053.

¹ Structural Interventional Cardiology Division, University Hospital Careggi Florence, Italy; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: carlo.dimario@unifi.it.
² Structural Interventional Cardiology Division, University Hospital Careggi Florence, Italy.
³ Medizinische Klinik I (Cardiology & Intensive care), Klinikum Darmstadt GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany.

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Keywords: chronic total occlusion; outcome; quality of life.

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