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Emmanouil S Brilakis1, Neeraj Badhey, Subhash Banerjee
1North Texas Health Care System, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Division of Cardiology (111A), 4500 S. Lancaster Rd., Dallas, TX 75216, USA.
The Journal of Invasive Cardiology
|March 3, 2011
Abstract:
We report a novel technique for retrograde chronic total occlusion intervention, in which the lesion is crossed by forming and advancing a "knuckle" in both the antegrade and retrograde guidewire, followed by reentry in the true lumen by using the Stingray re-entry system.
