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Retrograde approach ¡°Reverse CART technique¡± for Very long, RCA CTO lesion
- Operator : Etsuo Tsuchikane
Retrograde approach ¡°Reverse CART technique¡± for Very long, RCA CTO lesion |
- Operator: Esuto Tsuchikane, MD |
A 54 year-old man was admitted for efforting angina. He underwent PCI at mLAD at 2007 in another hospital but follow-up angiography showed instent restenosis, so received bypass graft surgery using off-pump method with LIMA to LAD and TRA to OM graft at 2008. March. He felt comfortable after CABG but recently suffered from efforting angina. |
Baseline coronary angiogram |
1. A right coronary angiogram showed TIMI 0 flow proximal, near ostium, portion of RCA with collateral from LAD with relatively enlarged RV branch. ( Movie 1) |
Procedure |
Firstly, left coronary was cannulated with a 8 Fr EBU 4.0 guiding catheter (hand-cutting short guiding) and right coronary was inserted with JR4 7 Fr SH guiding catheter. Initially, by using a ASAHI Corsair ¢ç 0.014 inch 2.8 Fr -150cm Coronary Micro-Guide catheter, 0.014 inch Fielder FC wire was tried into septal branch across the previously deployed stent strut. ( Movie 3) After crossing the stent strut, contrast injection via micro catheter showed no septal connection into RCA branch, for several times. (Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, Figure 4, Figure 5) At last, 4 th septal branch was successfully negotiated with distal PD brach. (Figure 6, Figure 7, Figure 8, Figure 9) During negotiation, We used Fielder XT and Fielder FC coronary wire, alternatively. After cross over septal collaterals, knuckle wire technique for retrograde subinitmal tracking was performed. (Figure 10) And then, another 0.014 inch coronary guidewire was inserted into RV branch for landmarking in intervention. (Figure 11) |
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