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Answer the call: Let's make 2015 the year of magical thinking in CTO PCI
Author(s) -
Heuser Richard R.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.988
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1522-726X
pISSN - 1522-1946
DOI - 10.1002/ccd.25886
Subject(s) - medicine , conventional pci , percutaneous coronary intervention , coronary angiography , cardiology , myocardial infarction
Key Points Prevalence of chronic total occlusions (CTO's) is as high as 50% in angiographic series Patients are helped with successful recanalization of CTO's In spite of current improved success rates in CTO percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), only 10–12% of CTO's are currently attempted