Case Report

The Wire Rendezvous and Chasing Wire Technique in the Bidirectional Approach for the Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Chronic Total Occlusion with a Single Guiding Catheter

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(a) Computed tomography after successful revascularization of the left anterior descending artery; the short and mildly calcified chronic total occlusion of the left circumflex artery; a stump presents after sending out the small branch (yellow arrows). (b) The middle left circumflex artery is occluded with Rentrop grade 2 collateral flow from the posterolateral branch channel and the apical channel. AP: antero-posterior; CRA: cranial; LAO: left anterior oblique.
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