Retrograde Balloon-Assisted Subintimal Entry for Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Primero Ng1,2, Lorenzo Azzalini1

  • 1Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Summary

An impenetrable proximal cap complicates chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). A novel retrograde balloon-assisted subintimal entry (BASE) technique successfully treated a CTO case with both proximal and distal cap impenetrability.