Manual of chronic total occlusion interventions: a step-by-step approach

When to perform chronic total occlusion interventions -- Equipment -- The basics : timing, dual injection, studying the lesion, access, anticoagulation, guide support, trapping, pressure and electrocardiogram monitoring -- Antegrade wire escalation : the foundation of chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention -- Antegrade dissection/reentry -- The retrograde approach -- Putting it all together : the hybrid approach -- ""balloon-uncrossable"" and ""balloon-undilatable"" chronic total occlusions -- Complex lesion subsets -- Radiation management during chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention -- Stenting of chronic total occlusion lesions -- Complications -- How to build a successful coronary chronic total occlusion program -- Equipment commonly utilized in CTO interventions -- Commonly used acronyms in CTO interventions."