Retrograde approach to successfully treat antegrade failure due to subintimal hematoma of a right coronary artery chronic total occlusion

Faisal Latif, Emmanouil S. Brilakis, José Emilio Exaire

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Abstract

Use of antegrade dissection re-entry techniques for crossing coronary chronic total occlusions may occasionally fail due to subintimal hematoma formation. We describe use of the retrograde approach to successfully complete a right coronary artery chronic total occlusion intervention, in which re-entry was not possible after subintimal guidewire crossing due to extensive subintimal hematoma formation that compressed the distal true lumen.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)229-233
Number of pages5
JournalInterventional Cardiology
Volume7
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1 2015

Keywords

  • chronic total occlusion
  • percutaneous coronary intervention
  • retrograde technique

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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