Multicenter experience with the antegrade fenestration and reentry technique for chronic total occlusion recanalization
Recommended Citation
Azzalini L, Alaswad K, Uretsky BF, Agostoni P, Galassi AR, Harada Ribeiro M, Filho EM, Morales-Victorino N, Attallah A, Gupta A, Zivelonghi C, Montorfano M, Bellini B, and Carlino M. Multicenter experience with the antegrade fenestration and reentry technique for chronic total occlusion recanalization. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2020.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-22-2020
Publication Title
Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: We aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of antegrade fenestration and reentry (AFR) for chronic total occlusion (CTO) recanalization in a multicenter registry.
BACKGROUND: Adoption of antegrade dissection/reentry (ADR) for CTO recanalization has been limited, and novel ADR techniques are needed.
METHODS: AFR involves the balloon-induced creation of multiple fenestrations between the false and true lumen. A targeted true lumen reentry is subsequently achieved with a low tip-load polymer-jacketed guidewire. Following the initial description and dissemination of AFR, patients undergoing AFR-based CTO recanalization at nine centers were included in the present registry. Study endpoints were AFR success, procedural success, and target-lesion failure (TLF) on follow-up.
RESULTS: We included 41 patients. Mean J-CTO score was 2.5 ± 1.4. In 80.5% of cases, AFR was performed after failed antegrade wire escalation. Another ADR technique was used before AFR in one-third of cases. AFR achieved distal true lumen reentry in n = 27/41 (65.9%) cases. In n = 14/41 (34.1%) cases with AFR failure, use of alternative techniques led to successful CTO recanalization in eight additional patients. The overall technical and procedural success rates were 85.4% and 82.9%, respectively. No AFR-related complications were observed. One-year TLF rate was 8.3% overall, with no differences between successful and failed AFR.
CONCLUSIONS: We report on AFR feasibility in a multicenter registry of patients undergoing CTO recanalization. We observed a moderate success rate, coupled with the absence of complications. Moreover, even a failed AFR attempt did not preclude the use of alternative techniques to achieve recanalization. Further studies should confirm and extend our findings.
PubMed ID
32320133
ePublication
ePub ahead of print
