Predicting Procedural and Long-term Outcomes of Endovascular Revascularization for Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Chronic Total Occlusions With Computed Tomographic Angiography

Nearly one-half of all lower extremity percutaneous interventions performed in patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease (PAD) involve chronic total occlusions (CTOs) which are technically more challenging and are associated with more periprocedural complications and lower rates of procedural success comparing with non CTOs. Despite innovate dedicated CTO devices developed and provides higher technical success, a wire-catheter approach to cross peripheral artery CTO is most often the first choice of operators as its lower cost advantage.Subhash Banerjee MD reported of all 1,362 CTOs, wire-catheter approaches were used in 82% and the technical success rate was 65%. If the operators chose wire-catheter as primary crossing device at the beginning of the procedure, but the technically failed with the provisional use of re-entry or crossing devices to try to procedural success. Such procedures add incrementally to procedure duration and cost and the revascularization and amputation rate at 12 month were highly increased comparing with using dedicated CTO devices initially. So it is very important to predict the outcome of guidewire crossing through CTOs to direct the choice of crossing strategy. Current data suggested that computed tomography angiography (CTA) imaging of PAD and a detailed comprehensive assessment for CTO arteries before endovascular therapy can assist preprocedural planning to maximize procedural success. Previous studies about coronary CTOs prediction scores as the KCCT score and CT-based CT-RECTOR provide the factors including occlusion length, the shape of proximal entry site, severe calcification, and etc. characters base on CTA correlating with the outcome of cross. As the same physiopathologic mechanism, we hypothesized that the radiographic characteristics are connected with outcomes of guidewire crossing occlusions. To our knowledge, few studies focused on how to predict the successful GC through peripheral artery CTO, therefore, the