Cardiovascular Research

Peripheral chronic total occlusions treated with subintimal angioplasty and a true lumen re-entry device.

Authors: Hazim Al-Ameri|||Victoria Shin|||Guy S Mayeda|||Steven Burstein|||Ray V Matthews|||Robert A Kloner|||David M Shavelle

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Abstract

We sought to verify how effective the Pioneer catheter (Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota) is in overcoming the complexity of re-entry during subintimal angioplasty and provide a case series describing the technique.