SCAI @ GW-ICC Joint Forum - Great Wall International Congress of Cardiology (GW-ICC) - Chronic Total Occlusions - Retrograde Approach

It has become a tradition for world renowned cardiology associations to send delegations to GW-ICC congresses.

Cooperation with these international societies is not limited to their attendance at GW-ICC; GW-ICC also holds reciprocal academic sessions at the annual meetings of these eminent societies, for example GW-ICC @ ACC, GW-ICC @ AHA, and GW @ ESC, to introduce important Chinese academic research.

At the 28^th GW-ICC in 2017, the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) held a Joint Forum. A video of one of these 2017 sessions, Challenges of Chronic Total Occlusion, is now available to view on the GW-ICC YouTube channel:

Chronic Total Occlusions – Retrograde Approach

Presenter: – Luis A Guzman, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Director Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.

Professor Guzman discusses the steps to successful retrograde CTO:

Planning
Collateral analysis
Collateral cannulation
Advancing the microcatheter
Collateral wire crossing
Collateral microcatheter crossing
Penetrating distal CTO cap
CTO crossing
Externalization
Angioplasty and stenting
Equipment removal

Further information on the 29^th GW-ICC, to be held October 11^th -14^th, 2018, in Beijing, China, is available on the congress website:

http://www.gw-icc2017.org/en/1/index.jsp

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