A New Japanese CTO Algorithm: A Step Forward or Backward?

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¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Electronic address: stephane.rinfret@mcgill.ca.
² Department of Cardiology, Wellington Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand.

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Stéphane Rinfret et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2019.

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. 2019 Nov 12;74(19):2405-2409.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2019.08.1048.

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Electronic address: stephane.rinfret@mcgill.ca.
² Department of Cardiology, Wellington Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand.

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Keywords: algorithm; chronic total occlusion; percutaneous coronary intervention.

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