Chronic Total Occlusion Registry
The aim of this CTO registry is to gather data including patient demographic date, cardiac risk factors, procedural technical data and procedural success/outcome rates. Furthermore, we aim to evaluate the safety and performance of various CTO specific guidewires, devices (such as the CrossBoss/Stingray dissection re-entry device) and other recognised and approved techniques (retrograde wire escalation, retrograde dissection re-entry techniques). The incidence of recognized complications (dissections, perforations, cardiac tamponade, vascular complications, radiation injury, acute kidney injury) will also evaluated. The investigator will assess clinical outcome at 1 year after successful CTO procedures.
• All consecutive patients undergoing an elective attempt at percutaneous revascularization of a chronic total occlusion are eligible for inclusion in the CTO registry. A chronic total occlusion is defined as an occluded coronary artery with TIMI 0 flow that has been occluded for 3 months or more. By definition all patients will have been judged to be acceptable candidates for an attempt at revascularization before consenting to be part of the CTO registry.