Preliminary program

SESSION 1 – Focus on antegrade approach

• Patient selection and indications
• What do we need from CTO angiography?
• How to use CT scan in CTO PCI

• New real time MRI for CTO PCI

• Radiation safety during CTO PCI
• Instructions for DAPT in CTO
• Essential basic techniques in antegrade

SESSION 2 – Publications and CTO scoring

• Recent scoring systems for predicting CTO PCI success
• Cons and Pros debate: Analysis of CTO new data
• Cases competition
• Live-in-box presentation

Welcome addresses

• By IMC LIVE board
• By SHA
• By SACIS

SESSION 3 – The perfect toolbox

• CTO Kit: necessary devices to have in your cath lab

• New tools for CTO PCI

SESSION 4 – Focus on Retrograde approach

• Step-by-step for retrograde
• Live-in-box presentation
• New wires for retrograde approach: plasma wire system
• Specific techniques for retrograde situations

• Opening with keynote lecture – Walid Fitaihi
• Dinner

SESSION 1 – Basics of ADR

• Toolbox for effective dissection re-entry techniques

• New antegrade dissection re-entry approach

• Cases competition

SESSION 2 – Difficulties in CTO

• Ipsilateral collateral channels
• When you cannot cross the proximal cap with a microcatheter

• Uncrossable heavily calcified distal RCA CTO
• CTO based on Newtonian Mechanics

SESSION 3 – Advanced level in dissection re-entry

• Solution for difficult antegrade dissection re-entry
• Solution for difficult retrograde dissection re-entry
• Live-in-box presentation

SESSION 4 – Management of complex CTO PCI

• Specific issues with post-CABG CTO
• How to manage shock patients with CTO
• Complications in antegrade approach
• Complications in retrograde approach
• Complications in ADR
• Results of cases competition