RT Book, Section
A1 Brilakis, Emmanouil S.
A1 Karatasakis, Aris
A1 Banerjee, Subhash
A2 Baliga, R. R.
A2 Lilly, Scott M.
A2 Abraham, William T.
SR Print(0)
ID 1160206538
T1 Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Chronic Total Occlusions
T2 Color Atlas and Synopsis of Interventional Cardiology
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071749350
LK accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1160206538
RD 2024/04/18
AB Coronary  chronic  total  occlusions  (CTOs)  are  defined  as  coronary  lesions  with  Thrombolysis  in  Myocardial  Infarction  (TIMI)  grade  0  flow  of  at  least  3  months  in  duration.  Coronary  CTOs  are  common,  being  encountered  in  approximately  1  in  3  patients  who  are  found  to  have  coronary  artery  disease  during  coronary  angiography  (range,  18%-52%;  Table  12-1).1-5  Numerous  patients  with  CTOs  have  complex  coronary  artery  disease  and  are  referred  for  coronary  artery  bypass  graft  surgery  (CABG),  but  many  are  referred  for  percutaneous  coronary  intervention  (PCI).