14 May 2024
CTO PCI: what a surprise!
Session comprising selected EuroPCR 2024 Clinical Case submissions
Facilitators:
J. Buettner, K. Tammam
Discussants:
B.Y. Hsiao, A. Øksnes
Summary
This session, comprising selected EuroPCR 2024 Clinical Case submissions, explores various challenging and unexpected scenarios encountered during CTO PCI procedures. It includes case presentations and discussions on guide wire entrapment and removal, subintimal wiring, revitalizing hope in a low ejection fraction patient, physiologic and hemodynamic considerations changing the revascularization plan, and managing balloon uncrossable lesions during CTO PCI.