Abstract

Interventional cardiac catheterization in a newborn with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, severely restricted interatrial septum and cor triatriatum

Author(s): T Fagan, S Eisdorfer, B Landeck, L Howley, O Aldoss, M Twite, J Jaggers & RJ Ing

’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.