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Comment
. 2024 Jan 1;20(1):109.
doi: 10.4244/EIJ-D-23-00830.

Letter: Due to the lack of significant mortality benefit along with high procedural complication rates, percutaneous coronary intervention of chronic total occlusions should be discouraged

Mohammad Reza Movahed  1
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Letter: Due to the lack of significant mortality benefit along with high procedural complication rates, percutaneous coronary intervention of chronic total occlusions should be discouraged

Mohammad Reza Movahed. EuroIntervention. .
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M.R. Movahed has no conflicts of interest to declare.

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