Computed tomography angiography-guided percutaneous coronary intervention in chronic total occlusion

Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography Predicts Guidewire Crossing and Success of Percutaneous Intervention for Chronic Total Occlusion

Intravascular Ultrasound Guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Chronic Total Occlusion

Chronic total occlusion (CTO), a fascinating and dynamic niche in the realm of coronary artery disease, represents a major technical challenge for interventional cardiologists despite evolution of better guidewires, devices, experience and techniques. Effective wiring technique is the corner stone to success of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in CTO. As a guide for guidewire crossing i...

Chronic total coronary occlusion percutaneous intervention.

Chronic total coronary occlusions (CTO) are encountered frequently, found in up to 50% of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) referred for elective angiography. Treatment strategy for an individual patient is often changed on the basis of the presence or absence of a CTO (1). Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of CTO remains challenging, with observed success rates that are signif...

Use of multislice computed tomography angiography in percutaneous coronary intervention

The introduction of multislice computed tomography angiography (MSCT) has provided new information for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), especially in complex lesions. It provides valuable adjustments about coronary lesions, which are predictors of procedural success, for example, in chronic total occlusions, in bifurcations and recently in aorto-ostial lesion PCI. In multiple fields, t...

Usefulness of Intraprocedural Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography During Intervention for Chronic Total Coronary Occlusion.

Although intraprocedural coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) allows for scanning during intervention without relocation of the patient, studies have yet to report on its use during chronic total occlusion (CTO) intervention. Therefore, we investigated the role of CCTA during CTO intervention, particularly whether CCTA could be used to evaluate the location of guidewires. A total of...