Overcoming Difficult Chronic Total Occlusion: Increasing the Applicability of Endovascular Intervention to Patients with Challenging Re - entry: Double Balloon Technique in Crossing Challenging Chronic Total Occlusions

Overcoming Difficult Chronic Total Occlusion: Increasing the Applicability of Endovascular Intervention to Patients with Challenging Re - entry: Double Balloon Technique in Crossing Challenging Chronic Total Occlusions

Context: Chronic total occlusions (CTOs) sometimes are a challenge for endovascular intervention, especially in developing countries where new devices used to cross CTOs are either unavailable or too expensive. Using basic endovascular tools remains the only solution in such cases when patients were...

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Main Authors: Magdy Abd el-Wahab Hagag, Ahmed Reyad Tawfik, Usama Lotfi, Maher Abd el-Monem
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2016-01-01
Series:Indian Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Subjects:
Challenging chronic total occlusion lesions
critical limb ischemia
double balloon technique
endovascular intervention
Online Access:http://www.indjvascsurg.org/article.asp?issn=0972-0820;year=2016;volume=3;issue=2;spage=40;epage=44;aulast=Hagag

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