Intravascular ultrasound-guided true lumen re-entry for successful recanalization of chronic total occlusions
Subhash Banerjee1, Ryan Master, Emmanouil S Brilakis
1VA North Texas Health Care System, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Division of Cardiology, Dallas, TX 75216, USA. mdcare@aol.com
The Journal of Invasive Cardiology
|December 4, 2010
Abstract:
We report a strategy of intravascular ultrasound-guided selection of the true lumen entry site from the subintimal space for predictable and successful re-entry, critical to successful recanalization of coronary chronic total occlusions.