Percutaneous. Recanalization of Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Coronary Arteries: Looking Back and Moving Forward ( What Should We Know About Prevented, Diagnostic, and Interventional Therapy in Coronary Artery Disease )

Publication series ： What Should We Know About Prevented, Diagnostic, and Interventional Therapy in Coronary Artery Disease

Author： Simona Giubilato Salvatore Davide Tomasello and Alfredo Ruggero Galassi  

Publisher： IntechOpen‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: INT4595354079

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789535110439

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789535110439

Subject： R54 in cardiac and vascular diseases (circulatory system)

Keyword： 心脏、血管（循环系）疾病

Language： ENG

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Percutaneous. Recanalization of Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Coronary Arteries: Looking Back and Moving Forward

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Chapter 20 Percutaneous. Recanalization of Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Coronary Arteries: Looking Back and Moving Forward

1. Introduction

2. CTO anatomy and definitions

3. Decision-making process for patients affected by CTO

3.1. Non invasive detection of myocardial viability

3.2. Impact of complete percutaneous revascularization

4. Tools for CTO recanalization

4.1. Micro-catheters and over the wire balloons

4.2. Dedicated devices in clinical use

5. The key of success of CTO PCI

5.1. Single wire techniques

5.2. Parallel-wire technique

5.3. Techniques with sub-intimal tracking

5.4. Retrograde approach

6. The stent choice for CTO treatment

6.1. Paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES) for CTOs

6.2. Sirolimus eluting stents (SES) for CTOs - Registries

6.3. Sirolimus eluting stents for CTOs - Randomized trials

6.4. Comparative DES trials in CTOs revascularization

6.5. Optimization of stent deployment

7. Complications of CTO PCI

7.1. Complications vascular access related

7.2. Complications procedure related

7.3. Coronary perforation

7.4. Coronary ostium dissection

7.5. Coronary thrombosis

7.6. Entrapment of device inside a lesion

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