Antegrade wire escalation for chronic total occlusions in coronary arteries: simple algorithms as a key to success
- Maeremans, Joren
- Knaapen, Paul
- Stuijfzand, Wynand J
- Kayaert, Peter
- Pereira, Bruno
- Barbato, Emanuele
- Dens, Jo
Publication date
January 2015
DOI Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)Abstract
Antegrade wire escalation (AWE) remains the method of choice for tackling chronic total occlusions (CTOs), especially for lesions with low J-CTO score. To increase the number of operators which treat CTOs and increase AWE success rates, there is a need for a clear, algorithmic approach. We report the results of a simple AWE algorithm with new guidewire technology in coronary CTOs
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