Chronic total occlusions (CTO) due to in-stent restenosis represent a challenging lesion subset for percutaneous coronary intervention in particular when associated with coronary calcification. Sometimes CTO lesions require antegrade or retrograde dissection-re-entry techniques with extraplaque dilation. Recently intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) emerged as a therapeutic option for the treatment of severely calcified coronary lesions but its role in extraplaque dilation is not described. In this report, we present a case of retrograde complex percutaneous coronary chronic total occlusion revascularization accomplished by the use of extraplaque IVL necessary to externally crush a heavy calcified previous implanted stent.
Keywords: CTO; interventional devices/innovation (IDI); new devices (in general) (NEWD); percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
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