Dr Mark Gunning (University Hospital of North Midlands, Stoke-on-Trent, UK) discusses the cost-effectiveness and efficacy of percutaneous coronary intervention for chronic total occlusion (CTO PCI).
Questions:
1. Which patients should be considered for CTO PCI and which should be referred to surgery?
2. Why is there a debate as to whether CTO PCIs are cost-effective?
3. What is your opinion on this matter?
4. Does the type of CTO technique influence the cost-effectiveness?
5. What is needed to silence the naysayers?
Filmed in London at BCIS ACI 2020.
Interviewer: Mirjam Boros
Videographer: Natacha Wienand / Dominic Woodruff