Paul Knaapen
Latest contributions
Double barrel in CTO PCI
23 Apr 2024
This EIJ image illustrates a crucial case, emphasizing the importance of confirming wire position in the true lumen during dissection and re-entry techniques in CTO PCI.
Retrograde CTO - the techniques
19 May 2022 – From EuroPCR 2022
Watch this EuroPCR 2022 session to discuss the basics of collateral analysis and passage with wires and microcatheters, retrograde intra and extraplaque CTO wiring, ante retrograde wire connection technique, marker wires, and much more!
New perspectives in CTO PCI, a case-based approach
19 May 2021 – From EuroPCR 2021
Watch this session presented by Masahisa Yamane, Paul Knaapen and Kambis Mashayekhi in order to learn more about new devices for CTO PCI treatment, to master selection and appropriate usage of CTO guidewires, and to learn what to consider for selecting the appropriate microcatheters.
Selection of appropriate devices for retrograde CTO cases
25 Jun 2020 – From PCR e-Course 2020
Watch this roundtable discussion if you want to witness appropriate device selection for retrograde approach, to improve your skills as a CTO operator and to have interactive discussions about available chronic total occlusion wires and devices.
Employing the appropriate strategy in complex CTO treatment
22 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session to improve your skills as a CTO operator: learn more about the available CTO wires and devices and how to use double lumen catheters.
All you need to know about physiological assessment of coronary artery disease
21 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019
Consult this session to learn all about the physiological assessment of coronary artery disease, thanks to a comprehensive and clinically relevant update on this field and to an identification of the current guidelines and recommendations, leading to further questions that will need to be addressed in the...
