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Complex antegrade and retrograde "Japanese style" PCI approaches can be applied in the U.S. practice environment with high technical success and low adverse event rates. Higher CTO-specific operator case volume is associated with improved technical success rates.

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In the current era of interventional cardiology, accurate calculation of the risk of in-hospital mortality after a percutaneous coronary intervention is feasible and may be useful for patient counseling and for quality improvement purposes.

Both transient and persistent postprocedural renal dysfunction are prognostically significant for mortality during extended follow-up. Renal dysfunction should be closely monitored before and after PCI.