Transcoronary rapid pacing can be effectively used to achieve cardiac standstill for precise distal cap puncture during complex retrograde CTO interventions.
Transcoronary rapid pacing enabled distal cap puncture in this epicardial CTO case; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before adoption.
We report a case of revascularization of the right coronary artery via the epicardial collateral, for which we used transcoronary rapid pacing to obtain cardiac standstill while puncturing the distal chronic total occlusion (CTO) cap. To our knowledge, this is the first case in which this technique has been used in CTO. (Level of Difficulty: Advanced.)
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