EUROSWISSCTO2026

WELCOME to the EUROSWISS Summit 2026

EuroCTO Update 2026:  From Vision to Collaboration – A Platform for the Future

SESSION 1 - From Rotterdam to Basel - from BMS to DCB in CTO-PCI

• Livecase 1
• Livecase 2
• DES in CTO-PCI
• Hybrid in CTO-PCI
• What can we learn from DCB in de novo lesions for CTO-PCI
• DCB only in CTO-PCI
• Scaffolds in CTO-PCI
• MIDCAB (DaVinci) and CTO-PCI with DCB only
• Time for live cases
• 6 talks and then round table discussion - provoker provokes panel. Questions from digital moderator

SESSION 2 - CTO controversies

• Livecase 3
• Livecase 4
• PROCTOR trial - Pro
• PROCTOR trial - Contra
• INVEST CTO - Pro
• INVEST CTO - Contra
• Time for live cases

LUNCH ( Lunch symposium )

SESSION 3: The role of Calcium in CTO PCI

• Livecase 5
• Livecase 6
• Calcifications - from identification to characterization and treatment prediction
• The role of non-invasiv imaging
• The role of intravascular imaging
• Mechanism of Action of Calcium modification
• Time for live cases
• Integration of all modalities

SESSION 4: Cutting Edge in CTO Research

• Cost-effectiveness of percutaneous revascularisation of coronary chronic total occlusions
• Prediction of In-Hospital Complications After CTO PCI: the ERCTO Complication Score
• Externalization Versus Portal Techniques in Retrograde CTO PCI – An EuroCTO Analysis
• Aorto-Ostial Right Coronary Artery CTO PCI: Procedural Outcomes and Predictors of Failure from the ERCTO Registry
• Patient-Level Meta-analysis of EuroCTO and DECISION-CTO for Single CTO Management
• What does IVUS - CHIP tell us for CTO PCI?
• Overall Coronary Disease Burden Modifies the Prognostic Benefit of CTO-PCI: A SYNTAX Score–Stratified Meta-analysis

SESSION 6 - Strategies and techniques in CTO-PCI

• Welcome
• Livecase 7
• Livecase 8
• ADR (contemporary, Stingray, wire-based)
• TD-ADR
• 3D wiring
• HDR
• LAST to STAR
• Investment
• Discussion round table (Panelist and Provoker) - presenters on tage, digital moderator collects questions during session

SESSION 7 - Complex CTO lesions

• Livecase 9
• Livecase 10
• Bifurcations
• Post-CABG
• Epicardial crossing
• Calcified lesions
• Subintimal stenting

LUNCH 13.30 - 14.30 ( Lunch symposium )

SESSION 8 - Complication case session - the winner gets invited to the SwissCTO&CHIP Summit 2027

• Case 1
• Case 2
• Case 3
• Case 4
• Case 5
• Case 6
• Case 7
• Case 8
• Case 9
• Case 10

Emmanouil Brilakis

USA

Rustem Dautov

Australia

Ricardo Santiago

Puerto Rico

Marco Wainstein

South America

Masahisa Yamane

Japan

William Lombardi

USA

Atsonuri Okamura

Japan

Joao Tinoco

South America

Stéphane Rinfret

USA

Sa'ar Minha

Israel

Edouard Koifman

Israel

Ahmed Shaker

Turkey

Yader Sandoval

USA

Su Hnin Hlaing

Australia

Lea Usaj

Slovenia

Kressin Luise

Germany

Achim Czopak

Germany

Viscusi Michele Mattia ,

Marta Herrero Brocal

Spain

Laura Novelli

Italy

Mario Araya

Chile

Stéphane Fournier

Switzerland

Olivier Friesewinkel

Switzerland

Rami Jubeh

Israel

Chad Kugler

USA

Ho Lam

Hong Kong

Gherasie Flavius

Germany

Olivier Muller

Switzerland

Muenpetch Muenkaew

Hong Kong

Max Wagener

Switzerland

Marlon Walter

Austria

Max Will

Austria

Anna Rab

Austria

Grégoire Girod

Switzerland

Jolanta Siller

Austria

Gabor Sütsch

Switzerland

Nesrin Usta

Germany

Francesco Arioli

Italy

Rong Bing

GB

Hendrik Feller

Germany

Catherine Gebhard

Switzerland

Peter Henriksen

GB

Stefanie Jellinghaus

Germany