Acronym Full Name Description Page (Main Explanation) Pages (Mentioned) Anchor-Tornus technique Combined use of the Tornus microcatheter and side-branch anchoring to cross a balloon-uncrossable CTO. 277 Antegrade balloon puncture Variation…
Name Type Manufacturer Pages Amplatz gooseneck snare Snare Covidien 76 Angiosculpt Scoring balloon Spectranetics 281 Astato XS 20 Very stiff (20 gr tip load), tapered tip guidewire Asahi Intecc 63…
Abstract Restenosis can be high after chronic total occlusion (CTO) treatment with balloon angioplasty or bare metal stents (BMS). Drug-eluting stents (DES) significantly reduce the risk for in-stent restenosis compared…
Abstract Antegrade wire escalation is the most easily understood and most widely used chronic total occlusion (CTO) crossing technique and is most appropriate for short occlusions or longer occlusions where…
Abstract A coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO) is defined as a 100% occlusion of an artery with thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) 0 flow of at least 3 month duration….
