Wire selection is the key success in CTO PCI.

1. Wire Selection in CTO PCI
Isman Firdaus, MD, FIHA, FAPSIC, FESC, FSCAI
Interventional Cardiologist Consultant
Pusat Jantung Nasional Harapan Kita, Indonesia

6. They have pioneered multiple strategies to cross
the CTO antegrade. These include:
1. Single wire manipulation with wire escalation
2. Parallel wiring
3. Seesaw wiring
4. Balloon anchoring
5. IVUS guided wiring

12. “…Technology makes things faster and more effective, but it’s
not perfect. It requires you to be as felxible as you can be..”
Jhon Phillip