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Key Topics

Coronary CTO interventions were one of the most popular topics at EuroPCR 2007: a selection of the most educational lectures and clinical cases including the newest techniques.
Clinical Video
The modern anterograde approach: MA06
Operators: M-C. Morice, T. Lefevre, M. Abdellaoui
(62 min.)

Clinical CaseClinical Case
The recently developped retrograde approach: SEO 01
Operators: S-W. Park, M-K. Hong, E. Tsuchikane
(60 min.)

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Webcasts
The European approach - Speaker: G. Werner (10 min.)
- webcast
- slides

The Japanese approach - Speaker: T. Suzuki (12 min.)
- webcast
- slides

Two very educational talks from Dr Ochiai and Dr Yamane regarding wiring strategy:
Speaker: M. Ochiai (6 min.)
- webcast
- slides

Speaker: M. Yamane (10 min.)
- webcast
- slides

Lectures

• What is the most recent rationale to attempt a CTO PCI?

Increasing successful outcomes: when to start and when to stop
M. Mason
Patient benefit and outcome - evidences so far
A. Gershlick
Chronic total occlusions – why bother?
G. Biondi-Zoccai


• What is the expert approach?

Patients with chronic total occlusion: how to approach in 2007
N. Reifart


• What is the role of new imaging modalities?

MRI

Setting up for success: visualising the chronic total occlusion
C. Van Mieghem

The role of the MSCT in the treatment of chronic total occlusions
H.M. Garcia-Garcia



Magnetic navigation

How to apply magnet guided navigation in chronic total occlusion
M. Van Der Ent



IVUS and OCT

The role of the IVUS and optical coherence tomography in the chronic total occlusion procedure
C. Di Mario


• What is the role of new wiring techniques?

Retrograde approach: the state of the art

Coronary chronic total occlusions
M. Ochiai

A specific complication?
Retrograde approach for coronary CTO: cause and extent of postprocedural myocardial damage
Dr Locca



Subintimal track : a possible pathway

STAR technique
M. Carlino


• Are New CTO devices dead or alive?

Dr Reifart’s point of view
Cutting edge devices for the treatment of chronic total occlusions
N. Reifart



EuroIntervention related contents
Five important papers in the recent issues of EIJ:

• The « white paper » from the EuroCTO club
European perspective in the recanalisation of Chronic Total Occlusions (CTO): consensus document from the EuroCTO Club

• A two-part overview on « how and why to reopen a CTO?
The how and why of... Chronic Total Occlusions:
Part One: How to treat CTOs
Part Two: Why we treat CTOs the way we do

• A critical appraisal of CTO techniques
Contemporary treatment of patients with chronic total occlusion: critical appraisal of different state-of-the-art techniques and devices

• A review about perforations, one of the most specific complication of CTO intervention: coronary perforations





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