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Implantation meets intervention: reopening of a thrombotic ostial occlusion of coronary sinus by angioplasty achieved improvement of cardiac venous drainage and allowed transvenous CRT implantation

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  1. Department of Cardiology, Electrophysiology Division, Schüchtermann Clinic, Heart Centre Osnabrück-Bad Rothenfelde, Bad Rothenfelde, Germany

    Wolfgang Kranig, Johannes Amberger, Khaled Awad, Enrik Wolff, Kerstin Vahlkamp & Joachim Thale

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Kranig, W., Amberger, J., Awad, K. et al. Implantation meets intervention: reopening of a thrombotic ostial occlusion of coronary sinus by angioplasty achieved improvement of cardiac venous drainage and allowed transvenous CRT implantation. Clin Res Cardiol 106, 1033–1039 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00392-017-1141-y

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