Title:Applied Pathology for Interventions of Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion
Volume: 11
Issue: 4
Author(s): Phillip Tran, Hung Phan, Sara R Shah, Faisal Latif and Thach Nguyen
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Keywords:
Chronic total occlusion, pathology, percutaneous coronary intervention.
Abstract: Percutaneous coronary intervention of chronically occluded vessels can result in significant improvement in
symptoms, relieve myocardial ischemia, and affect a reduction in major adverse cardiac events. Likelihood of achieving
successful revascularization can be significantly enhanced with a thorough understanding of the pathology of these occluded
coronary arteries. In this chapter, various steps and techniques to cross the CTO lesion and recanalize it are discussed
in details.