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Cardiology's Final Frontier: Confronting CTO
Retrograde and antegrade angioplasty for the treatment of complex chronic total occlusion and has been dubbed by some academics the "last frontier" of cardiac intervention. A leading practioner of the procedure is Dimitri Karmpaliotis, MD of Atlanta's Piedmont Heart Institute.