Interventional Cardiologists Face Major Obstruction In Treatment Of Total Blockages

–Deep divisions over how CTO patients should be treated. In recent years ambitious interventional cardiologists have started to perform PCI on chronic total occlusions (CTOs), though these lesions have long been recognized as among the most difficult to successfully treat. Many other physicians, including some prominent interventional cardiologists, have expressed grave concerns about this expansion...Click here to continue reading...
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