CTO (Chronic total occlusion)

Find all the latest content on chronic total occlusion (CTO) published on this website.

Recently we have seen an increase in successful percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) of CTO in part due to improvements in hardware (guidewires and balloons), the introduction of dedicated devices (microcatheters, channel dilators, dissection-reentry devices) and the elaboration of CTO-specific techniques. To fully grasp CTO today, here you will find here everything that you need to know including the latest devices and techniques as well as advances in imaging, the use of adjunctive pharmacotherapy, vascular access or understanding bleeding risks…

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Complications - Cathlab nightmares

05 Jul 2019 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2019

Consult this session to learn through challenging cases more about rare complications and their management, such as stent shaft separation, iatrogenic aortocoronary dissection, stent fracture, entrapped stiff wire, and more!

Complications - Cathlab nightmares

CTO

05 Jul 2019 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2019

Consult this session to discover compelling CTO cases, such as a retrograde recanalisation of a turnpike origin circumflex, a complex left anterior descending CTO reverse-CART via right ventricular marginal epicardial collateral, and more!

CTO

Complex PCI - Trifurcated lesion, MVD & calcified SVG

05 Jul 2019 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2019

Consult this session to discover complex PCI cases, and learn how to better identify access sites and techniques to use to overcome the challenges coming with this procedure.

Complex PCI - Trifurcated lesion, MVD & calcified SVG

Complex PCI - CTO lesions, acute STEMI & balloon occlusion

04 Jul 2019 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2019

Consult this session to learn more about complex PCI management, and discover the optimal strategies for CTO lesions, acute STEMI and balloon occlusion.

Complex PCI - CTO lesions, acute STEMI & balloon occlusion

Challenging CTO cases

04 Jul 2019 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2019

Consult this session on challenging CTO cases to learn more about the standard basic CTO techniques and the latest clinical trials of CTO interventions, and to discover new CTO techniques such as ADR et al.

Challenging CTO cases

Case study: a coronary Type III perforation during left anterior descending CTO-PCI

26 Jun 2019

Consult this complications case from EuroPCR 2018 by M. Pennacchi from the San Giovanni Evangelista Hospital, Tivoli - Italy if you want to learn how to manage a Type III coronary perforation together with sudden cardiac tamponade.

 

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Mauro Pennacchi
Case study: a coronary Type III perforation during left anterior descending CTO-PCI

What every interventional cardiologist should know about new cardiovascular drugs

Hannah McConkey (UK) talks to cardiologist and pharmacologist Atul Pathak (France) about the important changes in recent drug therapy. They discuss the easy-to-use lipid-lowering PCSK9 inhibitors, and ask should cardiologists now be prescribing the new classes of antidiabetic drugs? The key messages in antithrombotic therapy, and how to...

What every interventional cardiologist should know about new cardiovascular drugs

Developing a successful CTO Programme (NAP)

Spyros Linardos (Greece) and Ricardo Esteves (Portugal) discuss the importance of training in developing a safe and effective CTO programme. This can only be possible with the support of the hospital directors and the help of role models. In this very long intervention, every member of...

Developing a successful CTO Programme (NAP)

Rotational atherectomy for the treatment of calcified CTO

24 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019

Consult this session on calcified CTO to learn all about rotational atherectomy treatment strategy to ensure a successful recanalisation in complex clinical cases.

Rotational atherectomy for the treatment of calcified CTO

CTO tips and tricks

24 May 2019 – From EuroPCR 2019

Consult this session to learn about tips and tricks in CTO procedures, and discover new devices and equipment to successfully manage complex CTO cases.

CTO tips and tricks