"Ping-pong" technique for treating a balloon uncrossable chronic total occlusion

Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2018 Jan-Feb;19(1 Pt B):117-119. doi: 10.1016/j.carrev.2017.07.005. Epub 2017 Jul 11.

Abstract

Balloon uncrossable lesions are a well-known challenge during chronic total occlusion (CTO) interventions. The technique of using two different catheters into the same coronary artery, the so-called "ping-pong" technique, is a technique described for treating complications during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), like perforations or rotational atherectomy burr entrapment. We describe a case where the "ping-pong" technique was successfully used to facilitate treatment of a balloon uncrossable CTO lesion.

Keywords: Uncrossable chronic total occlusion; “Ping-pong” technique.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / instrumentation
  • Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary / methods*
  • Cardiac Catheters
  • Chronic Disease
  • Coronary Angiography
  • Coronary Occlusion / diagnostic imaging
  • Coronary Occlusion / physiopathology
  • Coronary Occlusion / surgery*
  • Coronary Vessels / diagnostic imaging
  • Coronary Vessels / physiopathology
  • Coronary Vessels / surgery*
  • Drug-Eluting Stents
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Treatment Outcome