Acute and Midterm Outcomes of Antegrade vs Retrograde Crossing Strategies for Endovascular Treatment of Iliac Artery Chronic Total Occlusions.
Damianos G KokkinidisT Raymond FoleyRyan CotterPrio HossainBejan AlvandiOmar JawaidMoosa N HaiderGagan D SinghStephen W WaldoJohn R LairdPublished in: Journal of endovascular therapy : an official journal of the International Society of Endovascular Specialists (2020)
A final antegrade approach was associated with lower rates for complications but the 2 approaches were similar in terms of lesion success, TLR, and MALE. The EIA CTOs were more likely to be treated with an antegrade approach and more likely to be crossed successfully with the initial approach irrespective of the crossing direction.