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Received: 12 January 2026

Accepted: 24 April 2026

First Online: 11 May 2026

Declarations

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: The authors declare that the present study complied with the ethical standards of the responsible human experimentation committee and adhered to the World Medical Association and the Declaration of Helsinki. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of participated hospitals. These include Ethics Committees of the Hospital San Juan de Dios in Santiago, Chile; Hospital Dr. Hernán Henríquez Aravena in Temuco City, Chile; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile; Hospital Dr. Guillermo Grant Benavente, in Concepción City, Chile; Hospital Dr. Gustavo Fricke, in Viña del Mar, Chile; Hospital de Talagante in Santiago, Chile; Hospital General ISSSTE Tacuba in Mexico City, Mexico; Centro de Imagen y Tecnología en Intervención Vascular in Mexico City, Mexico; Centro Médico ABC Santa Fe in Mexico City, México; Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez in Mexico City, Mexico; Helimedica in Naucalpan de Juárez, Mexico; Centro de Estudios Clínicos de Querétaro S.C. in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico; Instituto Cardiovascular de mínima invasión in Jalisco, México. The authors have followed their institution’s confidentiality protocols. The SAGER guidelines were followed according to the nature of the study. All participants signed the informed consent form before their enrollment.

: Consent for publication was not required by the Ethics Committees of participated hospitals.

: The authors declare the following competing interests: Judith Riesgo, Federico Levy and Claudio Muratore are employees of Medtronic and Ricardo Perez-Cuevas was temporally hired as a Medtronic Consultant. Fernando Lanas, Marco A Alcocer-Gamba, Carlos A Narváez, Rubén Aguayo, Pablo López and Hugo Verdejo participated as the researchers and received payment from Medtronic during the course of the study, corresponding to the hours spent collecting data and completing the database. Svetlana V. Doubova has an immediate family member who worked as a consultant for Medtronic. All authors declare their complete independence from Medtronic during the entire research process and are solely responsible for the methods, results, concepts, and conclusions in this manuscript. Medtronic PLC did not influence the analysis and interpretation of the data, nor the preparation and publication of this manuscript.

: Not applicable, as this is a secondary data analysis of the observational study.