Thirty-Day Readmissions After Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the United States: Insights From the Nationwide Readmissions Database
Highlights
- • One in 10 patients who undergo elective PCI for CTO experience an unplanned hospitalization within 30 days after the PCI.
- • Cardiac causes are the main reason for these readmissions, and half of those involved chest pain/angina or AMI.
- • Certain patient- and procedural- characteristics independently predicted the readmission.
- • Readmitted patients had considerable morbidity and mortality rates of their readmission, which were higher than those of the index hospitalization.
Abstract
Background
Several studies have investigated early readmissions after percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs). However, studies investigating 30-day readmission following PCI for chronic total occlusion (CTO) are lacking.