Percutaneous intervention of peripheral chronic total occlusions (CTO) is increasingly common, but Interventionalists still face significant barriers to successful treatment of CTO lesions in the coronary and peripheral anatomy. The greatest overall challenges are in crossing the CTO lesion and re-entering the true lumen from a successful subintimal crossing. We present a case report of a patient with a CTO of a lower extremity artery, in which treatment with a new, novel system was used to address both of these challenges.
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