• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: How opening two chronic total occlusions may be easier than just one
  • Contributor: Indermuhle, Andreas; Thomas, Martyn; Redwood, Simon
  • imprint: Wiley, 2012
  • Published in: Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1002/ccd.23299
  • ISSN: 1522-1946; 1522-726X
  • Keywords: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ; Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ; General Medicine
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Recanalization of chronic total occlusions (CTOs) via grafts has been described previously. However, the insertion of the graft into the distal vessel is often characterized by an unfavorable entry angle which renders an antegrade approach challenging. In the present case, we describe how retrograde recanalization of the proximal right coronary artery (RCA) via a right internal mammary artery graft facilitated antegrade revascularization of the CTO of the RCA. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.</jats:p>