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Swedish researchers examined SCAAR to determine the prognostic significance of a chronic total occlusion in an artery other than the infarct-related one of non-ST-elevation-MI patients.

Washington, DC - A chronic total occlusion (CTO) in an artery other than the one directly responsible for the infarct is an independent predictor of mortality in patients treated for a non-ST-elevation MI (NTSEMI), data from the national Swedish registry show.

Here at CRT 2012, the Cardiovascular Research Technologies conference, Dr Truls Råmunddal (Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden) presented an analysis of 1620 NSTEMI patients with a CTO of the non-infarct-related artery (IRA) in the Swedish Coronary Angiography and Angioplasty Registry (SCAAR) from 2005 to 2010.
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