title: Answer the call: let's make 2015 the year of magical thinking in CTO PCI.
abstract: Prevalence of chronic total occlusions (CTO's) is as high as 50% in angiographic series Patients are helped with successful recanalization of CTO's In spite of current improved success rates in CTO percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), only 10-12% of CTO's are currently attempted.
authors: St. Luke's Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona; University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona.
authors: Richard R
authors: RR
authors: Heuser
mesh_terms: D054059:Coronary Occlusion / Q000601:surgery*; D054855:Drug-Eluting Stents; D006801:Humans; D062645:Percutaneous Coronary Intervention / Q000379:methods*