Bilateral Approach

Chronic Total Occlusions: A Guide to Recanalization

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 107-112

  Surmely, Jean François ^a   Katoh, Osamu ^b  

^a General Hospital   (Switzerland)

^b Toyohashi Heart Center Toyohashi   (Japan)

Author keywords

Access route reaching distal end of CTO with retrograde wire; Bilateral approach; Crossing the CTO lesion; Different steps for CART technique; Successful CTO recanalization with techniques using bilateral approach; Techniques using retrograde approach increased rate of successful CTO recanalization; Techniques via bilateral approach; Techniques via retrograde approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 76449103802     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444308037.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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