Applied Pathology for Interventions of Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion
Percutaneous coronary intervention of chronically occluded vessels can result in significant improvement in symptoms, relieve myocardial ischemia, and affect a reduction in major adverse cardiac events. Likelihood of achieving successful revascularization can be significantly enhanced with a thorough understanding of the pathology of these occluded coronary arteries. In this chapter, various steps and techniques to cross the CTO lesion and recanalize it are discussed in details.
Phillip
P
Tran
Hung
H
Phan
Sara R
SR
Shah
Faisal
F
Latif
St Mary Medical Center, Hobart IN USA.
Thach
T
Nguyen
Chronic total occlusion; pathology; percutaneous coronary intervention