Complex Peripheral Vascular Interventions-New Technology Updates in the SFA: Has Anything Changed My Approach to CTOs? Dr. Sanjum S. Sethi

New Technology Updates in the SFA: Has Anything Changed My Approach to CTOs? Dr. Sanjum S. Sethi

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Video Summary

Sanjiv Sethi from Columbia presents updates on CTO crossing in SFA with a focus on technological advancements. The talk covers strategies for crossing CTOs, assessing plaque morphology, and adapting devices based on lesion characteristics. Sethi highlights various guidewires, microcatheters, and reentry catheters, emphasizing operator preference and situational techniques like retrograde access and intraluminal crossing. Though some technologies show promise, there is limited data on their effectiveness. Ultimately, combining antigrade wire escalation, retrograde, and reentry techniques yields high success in CTO interventions, despite added cost and variable efficacy.

Keywords

CTO crossing

technological advancements

guidewires

retrograde access

intervention techniques