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Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of chronic total occlusions (CTOs) can be challenging, especially if the CTOs are balloon uncrossable or balloon undilatable. We present a case illustrating that, orbital atherectomy may need to be combined with intravascular lithotripsy for CTOs that are both balloon uncrossable and undilatable.
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