Coronary disease & ACSGuideline or statement
Utility of Guiding Catheter Extensions for Recanalization of Chronic Total Occlusions
- Consensus document
Recommendations
As issued by the authors
Antegrade approach: Guiding catheter extensions (GCEs) may be useful to increase support or facilitate antegrade dissection and re-entry techniques
Retrograde approach: GCEs for reverse controlled antegrade and retrograde tracking, to increase retrograde support for gear delivery, for treatment of chronic total occlusions (CTO) in bifurcation and ipsilateral externalization with a single guide catheter
Original publication
Utility of Guiding Catheter Extensions for Recanalization of Chronic Total Occlusions. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. Published 14 August 2023. doi:10.1016/j.jcin.2023.05.019
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it