Chronic Total Occlusion
Rationale and design of EXPLORE: a randomized, prospective, multicenter trial investigating the impact of recanalization of a chronic total occlusion on left ventricular function in patients after primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute ST elevation myocardial infarction
... Treatment of patients with acute ST-elevation myocar- dial infarction (STEMI) aims at early restoration of ante- grade flow in the infarct related coronary artery in order to preserve myocardial function and improve ...
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Interventricular Septal Hematoma after Retrograde Intervention for a Chronic Total Occlusion of a Right Coronary Artery: Echocardiographic and Magnetic Resonance Imaging—Diagnosis and Follow-Up
... The reverse CART technique has given the potential to modify the retrograde procedure by improving the controlled movement of the retrograde wire without advancing the balloon retrogradely, which potentially reduces the ...
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Retrograde percutaneous coronary intervention via critically degenerated saphenous vein grafts for chronic total occlusion in native coronary arteries
... Despite the use of drug-eluting stents, saphenous vein graft (SVG) disease accounts for a subset of all percuta- neous coronary interventions (PCIs) that are not suc- cessful because of inadequate dilatation, a high risk ...
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Procedural success and outcomes with increasing use of enabling strategies for chronic total occlusion intervention: an analysis of 28,050 cases from the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society database.
... 8. Karmpaliotis D, Karatasakis A, Alaswad K, Jaffer FA, Yeh RW, Wyman RM, Lombardi WL, Grantham JA, Kandzari DE, Lembo NJ, Doing A, Patel M, Bahadorani JN, Moses JW, Kirtane AJ, Parikh M, Ali ZA, Kalra S, Nguyen-Trong ...
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Percutaneous Intervention of CTO Lesion and Non CTO Lesion in Patients with Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion
... complete occlusion of the artery with ...of occlusion should be more than 3 months, which can be estimated via initial onset of symptoms, or increased fre- quency of angina or previous history of myocardial ...
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Efficacy of three-dimensional roadmapping by fusion of computed tomography angiography with volumetric data from an angiography machine in endovascular therapy for iliac chronic total occlusion: a case report
... showed total occlusion from the ostium of the common iliac artery (CIA) to the distal part of the external iliac artery ...hard chronic total occlusion ...
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Myocardial blood flow assessment with myocardial perfusion scan in patients with coronary artery chronic total occlusion
... Introduction and purpose: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a leading cardiological problem in modern society. A special form of CAD is the Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO), which affects about 20% of ...
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Original Article Effects of percutaneous coronary intervention on viable myocardium and heart function of diabetic patients with chronic total occlusion
... Coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO) is com- mon in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), accounting for 20% to 40% of the pa- tients with CHD who were finally diagnosed by coronary ...
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Association of increased serum glycated albumin levels with low coronary collateralization in type 2 diabetic patients with stable angina and chronic total occlusion
... A total of 537 consecutive patients with stable angina and chronic total occlusion (> 3 months) of at least one major epicardial coronary artery between January 2009 and July 2013 from the ...
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A novel real time intravascular ultrasound double lumen microcatheter for recanalization of chronic total occlusion: a case report
... revealed chronic total occlusion of the right coronary artery from the right coronary artery ostium to the ostia of the posterolateral and posterior descending ...
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Donor artery stenosis interactions with diastolic blood pressure on coronary collateral flow in type 2 diabetic patients with chronic total occlusion
... a chronic total occlusion (CTO) is frequently associ- ated with multi-vessel coronary disease and has been considered as a prerequisite for spontaneous collateral recruitment [7, ...the ...
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Impact of collateralisation to a concomitant chronic total occlusion in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a subanalysis of the EXPLORE randomised controlled trial
... chronictotal occlusion; GOODCOLL, well-developed collaterals to the CTO; J-CTO, Japan chronic total occlusion; LAD, leftanterior descending artery; LCX, left circumflex artery; LVEDV, left ...
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Improved Angina Symptoms Following Coronary Sinus Flow Reducer Implantation in a Patient with Refractory Angina and Chronic Total Occlusion: A Case Report
... Coronary angiography showed 2-vessel coronary artery disease with RCA chronic total occlusion (CTO) with left to right Rantop 2 collateral flow and an important stenosis of proximal LAD. Surgical ...
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Prompt and consistent improvement of coronary flow velocity reserve following successful recanalization of the coronary chronic total occlusion in patients with viable myocardium
... Coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO) is defined as the complete occlusion of coronary artery with no epi- cardial blood flow in the occluded arterial segment, last- ing more than three ...
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Treatment of an external iliac artery chronic total occlusion using alternate access sites
... a chronic total occlusion of the left external iliac artery, which was treated successfully by percutaneous intervention via a primary transpedal approach and with the assistance of the Outback® ...
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Protected Endovascular Revascularization of Subacute and Chronic Total Occlusion of the Internal Carotid Artery
... that developed 1 month after the endovascular recanalization of the occluded ICA, and Lin et al 16 described 1 pseudoaneu- rysm, 1 iatrogenic carotid cavernous fistula, and 1 cervical extravasation after their 54 ...
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Successful revascularization versus medical therapy in diabetic patients with stable right coronary artery chronic total occlusion: a retrospective cohort study
... The incidence of chronic total occlusion (CTO) is reported to reach 18.2–52% [1–4] in patients undergo- ing coronary angiography. Right coronary artery (RCA) CTO has been observed in approximately ...
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Lipoprotein (a) interactions with cholesterol-containing lipids on angiographic coronary collateralization in type 2 diabetic patients with chronic total occlusion
... and chronic total ...ing total cholesterol, LDL-C, HDL-C, and non-HDL-C on coronary collateralization in a large number of patients with type 2 ...and chronic total ...
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The Feasibility of Percutaneous Transradial Coronary Intervention for Chronic Total Occlusion
... We evaluated the feasibility of the transradial coronary intervention (TRCI) in 85 consecutive patients with chronic total occlusion (CTO). Clinical, angiographic and procedural factors were compared ...
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Acute outcome of chronic total occlusion (CTO) recanalizsation in the elderly
... Objectives: Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of total chronic total occlusion (CTO) still remains a major challenge in interventional cardiology. There is only insignificant knowledge ...
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