CTO PCI: When at first you don't succeed…

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Editorial

Robert F Riley et al. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2019.

. 2019 Oct 1;94(4):525-526.

doi: 10.1002/ccd.28518.

¹ The Christ Hospital and Lindner Center for Research and Education, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Assessment of reattempted percutaneous coronary intervention strategy for chronic total occlusion after prior failed procedures: Analysis of the Japanese CTO-PCI Expert Registry.
Sekiguchi M, Muramatsu T, Kishi K, Muto M, Oikawa Y, Kawasaki T, Fujita T, Hamazaki Y, Okada H, Tsuchikane E. Sekiguchi M, et al. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2019 Oct 1;94(4):516-524. doi: 10.1002/ccd.28315. Epub 2019 May 6. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2019. PMID: 31062477

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