Aorto‐ostial right coronary artery chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention: technical outcomes and predictors of failure from the ERCTO registry

BACKGROUND: Aorto-ostial chronic total occlusions (CTOs) of the right coronary artery (RCA) represent a particularly complex subset of CTO percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), yet dedicated data remain limited. We aimed to evaluate technical outcomes of aorto-ostial versus non–aorto-ostial RCA...

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Main Authors:	Skalidis, Ioannis (Author) , Esposito, Luca (Author) , Hovasse, Thomas (Author) , Laforgia, Pietro (Author) , Florescu, Andrei G. (Author) , Champagne, Stephane (Author) , Werner, Gerald S. (Author) , Garbo, Roberto (Author) , Galassi, Alfredo R. (Author) , Diletti, Roberto (Author) , Boudo, Nicolas (Author) , Gasparini, Gabriele L. (Author) , Goktekin, Omer (Author) , Agostoni, Pierfrancesco (Author) , Di Mario, Carlo (Author) , Behnes, Michael (Author) , Vadalà, Giuseppe (Author) , Ungureanu, Claudiu (Author) , Sianos, Georgios (Author) , Mashayekhi, Kambis (Author) , Avran, Alexandre (Author)
Format:	Article (Journal)
Language:	English
Published:	Jul 2026
In:	Journal of the American Heart Association Year: 2026, Volume: 15, Issue: 14, Pages: 1-12
ISSN:	2047-9980
DOI:	10.1161/JAHA.126.051613
Online Access:	Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.126.051613 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.126.051613
Author Notes:	Ioannis Skalidis , MD, PhD; Luca Esposito, MD; Thomas Hovasse, MD; Pietro Laforgia, MD; Andrei G. Florescu, MD; Stephane Champagne , MD; Gerald S. Werner, MD, PhD; Roberto Garbo, MD; Alfredo R. Galassi, MD; Roberto Diletti, MD, PhD; Nicolas Boudo, MD; Gabriele L. Gasparini, MD; Omer Goktekin, MD; Pierfrancesco Agostoni, MD, PhD; Carlo di Mario, MD, PhD; Michael Behnes, MD; Giuseppe Vadalà, MD; Claudiu Ungureanu, MD; Georgios Sianos , MD, PhD; Kambis Mashayekhi, MD, PhD; Alexandre Avran, MD; the ERCTO Investigators, in Collaboration with the MLCTO Academy