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Use of the retrograde approach for treating a balloon-uncrossable coronary chronic total occlusion

AP Kotsia, GC Christopoulos & ES Brilakis

’Balloon uncrossable’ chronic total occlusions are lesions that cannot be crossed with a balloon after successful guidewire crossing. We describe a case where the retrograde approach was used to successfully cross and treat a ‘balloon uncrossable’ chronic total occlusion.