chronic coronary total occlusion

Original Contribution

Radiation Exposure for Percutaneous Interventions of Chronic Total Coronary Occlusions in a Multicenter Registry: The Influence of Operator Variability and Technical Set-up

03/01/2021

Gerald S. Werner, MD¹; Alexandre Avran, MD²; Kambis Mashayekhi, MD¹; Joerg Reifart, MD⁴; Alfredo R. Galassi, MD⁵; Nicolas Boudou, MD⁶; Markus Meyer-Gessner, MD⁷; Roberto Garbo, MD⁸; Joachim H. Buettner, MD³; Alexander Bufe, MD⁹; James C. Spratt, MD¹⁰; Leszek Bryniarski, MD¹¹; Artis Kalnins, MD¹²; Aigars Lismanis, MD¹³; Evald H. Christiansen, MD¹⁴; Victoria Martin-Yuste, MD¹⁵; Karl Isaaz, MD¹⁶; Georgios Sianos, MD¹⁷; Andrea Gagnor, MD¹⁸; Carlo di Mario, MD¹⁹; David Hildick-Smith, MD²⁰; Antonio Serra, MD²¹; Luca Grancini, MD²²; Nicolaus Reifart, MD⁴

Gerald S. Werner, MD1; Alexandre Avr...

Radiation exposure is a limiting factor for PCI of chronic CTO lesions. This study was designed to analyze changes in patient radiation dose for CTO-PCI and parameters associated with radiation dose.

Radiation exposure is a limiting...

03/01/2021

Journal of Invasive Cardiology