Indian Heart Journal (Jul 2016)

Language of CTO interventions – Focus on hardware

  • Sundeep Mishra

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2016.06.015
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 68, no. 4
pp. 450 – 463

Abstract

Read online

The knowledge of variety of chronic total occlusion (CTO) hardware and the ability to use them represents the key to success of any CTO interventions. However, the multiplicity of CTO hardware and their physical character and the terminology used by experts create confusion in the mind of an average interventional cardiologist, particularly a beginner in this field. This knowledge is available but is scattered. We aim to classify and compare the currently used devices based on their properties focusing on how physical character of each device can be utilized in a specific situation, thus clarifying and simplifying the technical discourse.

Keywords