ArticleEuropean heart journal. Case reports2023
A case report on intravascular lithotripsy to facilitate retrograde wire passage from the subintimal to the luminal space in a calcified chronic total occlusion.
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- Intravascular lithotripsy for proximal cap ambiguity in percutaneous coronary intervention for chronic total occlusions: the "stone whisper" technique.EuroIntervention : journal of EuroPCR in collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2025Article
- Utilization of proximal cap disruption using intravascular lithotripsy for severely calcified bifurcated-CTO entry.Cardiovascular intervention and therapeutics · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: Severe calcifications are a major reason for failures in chronic total coronary occlusions, as they can obstruct the wire passage both in the antegrade and retrograde technique. Case summary: The proximal occlusion of the left anterior descending artery in a 75-year-old man presented with a completely concentric calcified ring all along the segment proximal to the occlusion. The antegrade wire could not pass the calcified occlusion, and in a retrograde approach Discussion: Intravascular lithoplasty is a new option to modify severely calcified vessel segments to facilitate the reverse controlled antegrade and retrograde tracking approach. In the present case, this helped to avoid a long subintimal pathway and preserved the vessel anatomy.
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