Why the study?
Does intraluminal blunt microdissection allow successful crossing and revascularization in patients with coronary chronic total occlusions refractory to guidewire techniques?
Does intraluminal blunt microdissection allow successful crossing and revascularization in patients with coronary chronic total occlusions refractory to guidewire techniques?
Intraluminal blunt microdissection provides a feasible and successful alternative approach for crossing coronary chronic total occlusions when standard guidewire techniques fail.
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May facilitate crossing of refractory coronary CTOs; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before adoption.
Whitbourn et al. (2003) studied this question.
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