Excimer laser atherectomy in an uncrossable long chronic total occlusion through the subintimal space

Marcelo Harada Ribeiro; Luis Augusto Palma Dallan; Marouane Boukhris; Carlos Augusto H M Campos; Hiram Grando Bezerra; Franklin Hanna Quesada; Cristiano Guedes Bezerra; Pierfrancesco Agostoni; Lorenzo Azzalini; Alfredo R Galassi

doi:10.1080/00015385.2020.1789813

Excimer laser atherectomy in an uncrossable long chronic total occlusion through the subintimal space

Acta Cardiol. 2021 Oct;76(8):914-915. doi: 10.1080/00015385.2020.1789813. Epub 2020 Jul 8.

Affiliations

¹ Heart Institute, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
² Hospital SOS Cardio, Florianopolis, Brazil.
³ The Valve and Structural Heart Disease Intervention Center, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA.
⁴ Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
⁵ Angiografia del Eje Cafetero, Pereira, Colombia.
⁶ Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen, Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium.
⁷ Mount Sinai hospital, New York, NY, USA.
⁸ Chair of Cardiology, Department of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.

PMID: 32640884
DOI: 10.1080/00015385.2020.1789813

No abstract available

Keywords: Excimer laser coronary atherectomy; chronic total occlusion; intravascular ultrasound; percutaneous coronary intervention; stent expansion.

MeSH terms

Atherectomy
Atherectomy, Coronary*
Chronic Disease
Coronary Angiography
Coronary Occlusion* / diagnosis
Coronary Occlusion* / surgery
Humans
Lasers, Excimer / therapeutic use
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention*
Treatment Outcome