Coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO),defined as a total occlusion of duration ＞3 months,remains a technical challenge for the interventional cardiologists.The major limitation in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) of CTO is the inability to penetrate and cross the occlusion with a guidewire.It was reported that the immediate angiographic success rate varied from 50%to 70% using the standard antegrade techniques,1 To improve this suboptimal success rate,the authors firstly introduced retrograde approach through the collateral channels as a novel technique2 and successfully recanalized a left main CTO using this technique when demonstrating the live cases in Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2005.Recently,modified techniques based on the retrograde approach have demonstrated that this approach could provide a high success rate with PCI.3-5 In the present report,we described a new method,wire trapping technique combined with retrograde approach,which was applied successfully in three patients with CTO.