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. 2021 Dec 7;2021:8042633. doi: 10.1155/2021/8042633

Table 2.

In-hospital complications.

All (n = 920) Years 1–4 (n = 301) Years 5–9 (n = 619) P value
Any complication 86 (9.3) 23 (7.6) 63 (10.2) 0.230
Major complication 43 (4.7) 9 (3.0) 34 (5.5) 0.098
Major adverse cardiovascular events 23 (2.5) 4 (1.3) 19 (3.1) 0.175
 In-hospital death 3 (0.3) 1 (0.3) 2 (0.3) 1.0
 Stroke 2 (0.2) 1 (0.3) 1 (0.2) 0.548
 Periprocedural MI 18 (2.0) 2 (0.7) 16 (2.6) 0.072

Coronary complications 37 (4.0) 13 (4.3) 24 (3.9) 0.724
 CTO vessel 27 (2.9) 10 (3.3) 17 (2.7) 0.678
 Donor vessel 10 (1.1) 3 (1.0) 7 (1.1) 1.0
 Coronary perforation 28 (3.0) 10 (3.3) 18 (2.9) 0.838
  Ellis type 2 or more 18 (2.0) 8 (2.7) 10 (1.6) 0.314
  Requiring intervention 12 (1.3) 3 (1.0) 9 (1.5) 0.760

Vascular complications 30 (3.3) 6 (2.0) 24 (3.9) 0.166
 Retroperitoneal hematoma 3 (0.3) 1 (0.3) 2 (0.3) 1.0
 Hematoma > 5 cm 12 (1.3) 5 (1.7) 7 (1.1) 0.542
 Pseudoaneurysm 12 (1.3) 0 (0) 12 (1.9) 0.011
 Acute limb ischemia 3 (0.3) 0 (0.5) 3 (0.5) 0.555

Major vascular complication 9 (1.0) 3 (1.0) 6 (1.0) 1.0

Others
 Pericardial effusion 16 (1.7) 6 (2.0) 10 (1.6) 0.789
 Major bleeding 9 (1.0) 3 (1.0) 6 (1.0) 1.0
 Contrast-induced nephropathy 16 (1.7) 4 (1.3) 12 (1.9) 0.601

Myocardial injury
 hsTroponin T, baseline (ng/L) 15 (9–30) 18 (10–40) 14 (9–25) 0.003
 hsTroponin T, day 1 (ng/L) 43 (22–110) 33 (18–90) 50 (24–127) <0.001
 Coronary procedure-related myocardial injury 462 (71.0) 154 (61.1) 308 (77.2) <0.001

CTO, chronic total occlusion; hsTroponin T, high-sensitivity troponin T; MI, myocardial infarction. Troponin values are median with interquartile range. Dichotomous variables are reported as number (percentages). Significant p values below 0.05 are shown in bold.