Backyards of Chronic Total Occlusion

Backyards of chronic total occlusion: scenery revealed through angioscope.

Editorial Chronic Coronary Total Occlusion

Chronic total occlusion (CTO) is quite frequent finding in coronary artery disease. Comprised of a combination of fibrocalcific and thrombotic elements, CTO has been reported in approximately onethird of patients undergoing diagnostic coronary angiography. This thematic issue goes in depth into “coronary CTO ” that still represents the last frontier in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). ...

Complications of Recanalization of Chronic Total Occlusion

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) of Chronic Total Occlusions (CTO) is an accepted revascularization procedure. These complex procedures carry with them certain risks and potential complications. Complications of PCI such as contrast induced renal dysfunction, radiation, etc, assume more relevance given the length and complexity of these procedures. Further, certain complications such as...

Pathology of Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion

There is an increasing need for percutaneous revascularization procedures of coronary Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO), because many patients with severe coronary artery disease have limited options for revascularization. Although the success rate of percutaneous revascularization of CTOs was unsatisfactory from the 1990s to the 2000s, recent technological advances in interventional strategies hav...

Management of Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion

Copyright © 2011 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online 72514 Circulation is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.972802 2011;123;1780-1784 Circulation Pinak B. Shah Management of Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/123/16/1780 located on t...