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Chronic Total Occlusions

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Chronic total occlusion (CTO) is defined as a total occlusion with either known duration of more than 3 months or presence of bridging collaterals. CTO has certain favorable and unfavorable characteristics which should be looked for in detail during angiography.

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  1. Department of Interventional Cardiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, One Gustave Levy Place, Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10029, USA

    Nagendra Boopathy Senguttuvan MD, DM, Ravinder Singh Rao MD & Annapoorna Kini MD, MRCP, FACC

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  1. Nagendra Boopathy Senguttuvan MD, DM
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Correspondence to Annapoorna Kini MD, MRCP, FACC .

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  1. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Annapoorna Kini

  2. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Samin Sharma

  3. Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Jagat Narula

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Senguttuvan, N.B., Rao, R.S., Kini, A. (2014). Chronic Total Occlusions. In: Kini, A., Sharma, S., Narula, J. (eds) Practical Manual of Interventional Cardiology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6581-1_19

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