Table 2.
Procedural characteristics of interventions for chronic total occlusions
| Interventions n (%) |
Available data n | |
|---|---|---|
| Access route 1 | 2,802 | |
| Radial artery | 1,888 (67.4) | |
| Femoral artery | 902 (32.2) | |
| Brachial artery | 12 (0.4) | |
| Double access used | 21 (15.7) | 134 |
| Target artery | 3,050 | |
| Left main/left anterior descending | 1,111 (36.4) | |
| Right coronary artery | 1,305 (42.8) | |
| Ramus circumflexusa | 585 (19.2) | |
| Arterial/venous bypass graft | 49 (1.6) | |
| Type of procedure | 2,918 | |
| Stent placement | 2,448 (83.9) | |
| Drug-eluting stent | 1,725 (70.5) | |
| Bare-metal stent | 5 (0.2) | |
| Bioresorbable vascular scaffold | 1 (0.0) | |
| Unknown stent type | 717 (29.3) | |
| Balloon dilatation | 253 (8.7) | |
| Aborted procedure | 217 (7.4) |
aIncluding the anterolateral/intermediate artery