Alexander Bufe
Witten/Herdecke University
69 Papers
218 Citations
Alexander Bufe is an academic researcher from Witten/Herdecke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Percutaneous coronary intervention & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 59 publications. Previous affiliations of Alexander Bufe include University of Cologne.
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Papers
A randomized multicentre trial to compare revascularization with optimal medical therapy for the treatment of chronic total coronary occlusions.
Gerald S. Werner,Victoria Martin-Yuste,David Hildick-Smith,Nicolas Boudou,Georgios Sianos,Valery Gelev,José Ramón Rumoroso,Andrejs Erglis,Evald Høj Christiansen,Javier Escaned,Carlo Di Mario,Thomas Hovasse,Luis Teruel,Alexander Bufe,Bernward Lauer,Kris Bogaerts,Javier Goicolea,James C. Spratt,Anthony H. Gershlick,Alfredo R. Galassi,Yves Louvard,Eurocto trial investigators +21 more
TL;DR: Percutaneous coronary intervention leads to a significant improvement of the health status in patients with stable angina and a CTO as compared with OMT alone.
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Guiding Principles for Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Global Expert Consensus Document
Emmanouil S. Brilakis,Kambis Mashayekhi,Etsuo Tsuchikane,Nidal Abi Rafeh,Khaldoon Alaswad,Mario Araya,Alexandre Avran,Lorenzo Azzalini,Avtandil M. Babunashvili,Baktash Bayani,Ravinay Bhindi,Nicolas Boudou,Marouane Boukhris,Nenad Božinović,Leszek Bryniarski,Alexander Bufe,Christopher E. Buller,M. Nicholas Burke,Heinz Joachim Büttner,Pedro Cardoso,Mauro Carlino,Evald Høj Christiansen,Antonio Colombo,Kevin Croce,Félix Damas de los Santos,Tony De Martini,Joseph Dens,Carlo Di Mario,Kefei Dou,Mohaned Egred,Ahmed ElGuindy,Javier Escaned,Sergey Furkalo,Andrea Gagnor,Alfredo R. Galassi,Roberto Garbo,Junbo Ge,Pravin K. Goel,Omer Goktekin,Luca Grancini,J. Aaron Grantham,Colm G. Hanratty,Stefan Harb,Scott A. Harding,José P.S. Henriques,Jonathan Hill,Farouc A. Jaffer,Yangsoo Jang,Risto Jussila,Artis Kalnins,Arun Kalyanasundaram,David E. Kandzari,Hsien Li Kao,Dimitri Karmpaliotis,Hussien Heshmat Kassem,Paul Knaapen,Ran Kornowski,Oleg Krestyaninov,A. V.Ganesh Kumar,Peep Laanmets,Pablo Lamelas,Seung-Whan Lee,Thierry Lefèvre,Yue Li,Soo Teik Lim,Sidney Lo,William Lombardi,Margaret McEntegart,Muhammad Munawar,José A. Navarro Lecaro,Hung M. Ngo,William J. Nicholson,Göran K. Olivecrona,Lucio Padilla,Marin Postu,Alexandre Schaan de Quadros,Franklin Hanna Quesada,Vithala Surya Prakasa Rao,Nicolaus Reifart,Meruzhan Saghatelyan,Ricardo Santiago,George Sianos,Elliot J. Smith,James C. Spratt,Gregg W. Stone,Julian Strange,Khalid Tammam,Imre Ungi,Minh Vo,Vu Hoang Vu,Simon J Walsh,Gerald S. Werner,Jason R Wollmuth,Eugene B. Wu,R. Michael Wyman,Bo Xu,Masahisa Yamane,Luiz F. Ybarra,Robert W. Yeh,Qi Zhang,Stéphane Rinfret +100 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified seven common principles that are widely accepted as best practices for chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in CTO-PCI.
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In-hospital outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with chronic total occlusion: insights from the ERCTO (European Registry of Chronic Total Occlusion) registry.
Alfredo R. Galassi,Salvatore D. Tomasello,Nicolaus Reifart,Gerald S. Werner,George Sianos,Hans Bonnier,Horst Sievert,Stephan Ehladad,Alexander Bufe,Joachim Shofer,Anthony H. Gershlick,David Hildick-Smith,Javier Escaned,Andrejs Erglis,Imad Sheiban,Leif Thuesen,Anthony Serra,Evald Høj Christiansen,Achim Buettner,Luca Costanzo,Giombattista Barrano,Carlo Di Mario +21 more
TL;DR: The first report of the ERCTO registry by the EuroCTO club shows a high procedural success rate obtained by expert European operators in a "real-world" consecutive series of patients, comparable with those reported by Japanese registries.
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Retrograde Recanalization of Chronic Total Occlusions in Europe: Procedural, In-Hospital, and Long-Term Outcomes From the Multicenter ERCTO Registry
Alfredo R. Galassi,Georgios Sianos,Gerald S. Werner,Javier Escaned,Salvatore D. Tomasello,Marouane Boukhris,Marine Castaing,Joachim H. Büttner,Alexander Bufe,Artis Kalnins,James C. Spratt,Roberto Garbo,David Hildick-Smith,Simon Elhadad,Andrea Gagnor,Bernward Lauer,Leszek Bryniarski,Evald Høj Christiansen,Leif Thuesen,Markus Meyer-Geßner,Omer Goktekin,Mauro Carlino,Yves Louvard,Thierry Lefèvre,Aigars Lismanis,Valery Gelev,Antonio Serra,Francesco Marzà,Carlo Di Mario,Nicolaus Reifart,Euro Cto Club +30 more
TL;DR: The number of retrograde procedures in Europe has increased, with high percents of success, low rates of major complications, and good long-term outcomes.
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Global Chronic Total Occlusion Crossing Algorithm: JACC State-of-the-Art Review
Eugene B. Wu,Emmanouil S. Brilakis,Kambis Mashayekhi,Etsuo Tsuchikane,Khaldoon Alaswad,Mario Araya,Alexandre Avran,Lorenzo Azzalini,Avtandil M. Babunashvili,Baktash Bayani,Michael Behnes,Ravinay Bhindi,Nicolas Boudou,Marouane Boukhris,Nenad Z. Bozinovic,Leszek Bryniarski,Alexander Bufe,Christopher E. Buller,M. Nicholas Burke,Achim Buttner,Pedro Cardoso,Mauro Carlino,Ji Yan Chen,Evald Hoej Christiansen,Antonio Colombo,Kevin Croce,Félix Damas de los Santos,Tony De Martini,Joseph Dens,Carlo Di Mario,Kefei Dou,Mohaned Egred,Basem Elbarouni,Ahmed ElGuindy,Javier Escaned,Sergey Furkalo,Andrea Gagnor,Alfredo R. Galassi,Roberto Garbo,Gabriele Gasparini,Junbo Ge,Lei Ge,Pravin K. Goel,Omer Goktekin,Nieves Gonzalo,Luca Grancini,Allison B. Hall,Franklin Hanna Quesada,Colm G. Hanratty,Stefan Harb,Scott A. Harding,Raja Hatem,José P.S. Henriques,David Hildick-Smith,Jonathan Hill,Angela Hoye,Wissam Jaber,Farouc A. Jaffer,Yangsoo Jang,Risto Jussila,Artis Kalnins,Arun Kalyanasundaram,David E. Kandzari,Hsien-Li Kao,Dimitri Karmpaliotis,Hussien Heshmat Kassem,Jaikirshan Khatri,Paul Knaapen,Ran Kornowski,Oleg Krestyaninov,A. V.Ganesh Kumar,Pablo Lamelas,Seung-Whan Lee,Thierry Lefèvre,R. Leung,Yu Li,Yue Li,Soo Teik Lim,Sidney Lo,William Lombardi,Anbukarasi Maran,Margaret McEntegart,Jeffrey W. Moses,Muhammad Munawar,Andres Navarro,Hung M. Ngo,William J. Nicholson,Anja Øksnes,Göran K. Olivecrona,Lucio Padilla,Mitul Patel,Ashish Pershad,Marin Postu,Jie Qian,Alexandre Schaan de Quadros,Nidal Abi Rafeh,Truls Råmunddal,Vithala Surya Prakasa Rao,Nicolaus Reifart,Robert F. Riley,Stéphane Rinfret,Meruzhan Saghatelyan,George Sianos,Elliot J. Smith,Anthony Spaedy,James C. Spratt,Gregg W. Stone,Julian Strange,Khalid Tammam,Craig Thompson,Aurel Toma,Jennifer A. Tremmel,Ricardo Santiago Trinidad,Imre Ungi,Minh Vo,Vu Hoang Vu,Simon J Walsh,Gerald S. Werner,Jarosław Wójcik,Jason R Wollmuth,Bo Xu,Masahisa Yamane,Luiz F. Ybarra,Robert W. Yeh,Qi Zhang +124 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a global chronic total occlusion crossing algorithm was developed, which is followed by a careful angiographic review focusing on proximal cap morphology, occlusions segment, distal vessel quality, and collateral circulation.
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