title: Retrograde approach "reverse CART technique" with a single guiding catheter for chronic total occlusion of the right coronary artery via an anomalous left circumflex artery.
abstract: The retrograde approach has been shown to improve the success rate of percutaneous coronary intervention for coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO) when performed by highly experienced operators. We report a very challenging case of a retrograde approach by the "reverse controlled antegrade and retrograde subintimal tracking (CART) technique" with a single guiding catheter for a CTO of the right coronary artery via an anomalous left circumflex artery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Centre Hospitalier Lagny-Marne-la-Vallée, 31 avenue du Général Leclerc - 77000 Lagny-sur-Marne, France. remycohen@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Remy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: Madgid
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hattab
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Elhadad
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / Q000379:methods*; D003097:Collateral Circulation; D054059:Coronary Occlusion / Q000628:therapy*; D003331:Coronary Vessels; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome