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Current Cardiology Reviews

Editor-in-Chief

ISSN (Print): 1573-403X
ISSN (Online): 1875-6557

CTO Pathophysiology: How Does this Affect Management?

Author(s): John Irving

Volume 10, Issue 2, 2014

Page: [99 - 107] Pages: 9

DOI: 10.2174/1573403X10666140331142349

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Abstract

Chronic total occlusion (CTO) pathophysiology has been described in a few, small studies using post mortem histology, and more recently, in vivo intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) to analyse the constituents of occluded segments. Recent improvements in equipment and techniques have revealed new insights into physical characteristics of occluded coronaries, which in turn enable predictable procedural success. The purpose of this review is to consider the published evidence describing CTO pathophysiology from the perspective of the hybrid algorithm approach to CTO PCI.

Methods: Literature searches using “Chronic Occlusion”, “angioplasty”, and” pathology” as keywords. Further searches on “coronary” “collateral”, “Viability”. Bibliographies were scrutinised for further key publications in an iterative process. Papers describing animal models were excluded.

Keywords: Angioplasty, chronic total occlusion, collateral, pathophysiology.


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