Summit 2025

Thursday 25^th & Friday 26^th, September

DAY 1 | THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 25th, 2025

08:00

Welcome & Introduction

Gregor Leibundgut & Daniel Weilenmann

08:10

SESSION 1 – EVIDENCE AND COMMON SENSE

Coordinator:

Vojtěch Novotný

Director:

Daniel Sürder

Virtual proctor:

Arun Kalyanasundaram

Digital moderator:

Mathias Bossard

Provoker:

Alexander Nap

+ Why is it difficult to show a mortality benefit in RCTs?

Arun Kalyanasundaram

+ Evidence for CTO-PCI in impaired LV Function.

Michael Behnes

08:30

Live Case 1 – Down under

From Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia

Operators: Rustem Dautov & Su Hnin Hlaing

09:00

Live Case 2 – The local case

From University Hospital Basel, Switzerland

Operators: Stylianos Pyxaras & Elliot Smith

09:30

Live Case 3 – From our guests

From Shamir Medical Center, Be’er Yakov, Israel

Operators: Ilya Litovchik & Sa’ar Minha

Hot Seat: CTO, DCB and beyond – Challenging the guidelines

Referee: James Spratt

+ Guidelines – With all respects.

Lukas Hunziker

+ Critical controversy.

Paul Knaapen

+ Guidelines – All about sausages.

Mihajlo Kovačic

+ Critical controversy.

Daniel Sürder

10:30

Coffee Break and visit of the Exhibition

11:00

SESSION 2 – NEW AND COMMON TECHNIQUES REVISITED

Coordinator:

Adriaan Wilgenhof

Director:

Gregor Fahrni

Virtual proctor:

John Hung

Digital moderator:

Mihai Cocoi

Provoker:

Ahmed El Guindy

+ The art of knuckling.

Gregor Leibundgut

+ HDR and TD-HDR.

Mihnea Nichita-Brendea

+ Tip-in and beyond.

Mihai Cocoi

+ Differential resistance wiring.

Elliot Smith

+ From IVUS guided puncture to TD-ADR.

Maksymilian Opolski

12:30

Lunch and visit of the Exhibition

13:30

SESSION 3 – MECANISM OF ACTION

Coordinator:

Alexander Nap

Director:

Peter Dietrich

Virtual proctor:

Muhamet Sinani

Digital moderator:

Florian Riede

Provoker:

Florim Cuculi

13:30

Live Case 4 – From our Guests

From Wolfson Medical Center – Holon, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Operators: Hussein Sliman & Edouard Koifman

14:00

Live Case 5 – Ricky from the Beach

From Bayamón Heart and Lung Institute, Puerto Rico

Operator: Ricardo Santiago

14:30

Live Case 6 – Sentei Podcast

Minneapolis Heart Institute, United-States

Operators: Emmanouil Brilakis & Yader Sandoval

+ Specialty balloons (NC, OPN, Scoring, Cutting).

Ignacio J. Amat Santos

+ Calcium morphology, distribution and differential treatement modalities.

Ganeev Malhotra

+ Laser not only for Jedi.

Mattia Basile

+ IVL: Shockwave and beyond.

Marco Wainstein

+ Ablation therapies.

Simon Wilson

16:00

Coffee Break and visit of the Exhibition

16:30

SESSION 4 – THE HISTORY AND THE FUTURE

Coordinator:

Daniel Weilenmann

Director:

Lukas Hunziker

Virtual proctor:

James Spratt

Digital moderator:

Nino Cocco

Provoker:

Gregor Leibundgut

+ AI in interventional cardiology – Ready to go?

James Spratt

+ The Sacred Land: A Story of Progress and Innovation in Complex PCI.

Rami Jubeh

+ Invention and the art of swimming with sharks.

Chad Kugler

18:25

Wrap up and Information

Gregor Leibundgut & Daniel Weilenmann

18:30

End of Day 1

DAY 2 | FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 26th, 2025

08:00

Welcome

Daniel Weilenmann & Gregor Leibundgut

08:05

SESSION 5 – EUROVASC MEETS SWISS CTO&CHIP

Coordinator:
Stefan Harb

Director:

Barbara Stähli

Virtual proctor:

Maksymilian Opolski

Digital moderator:

Johannes Rigger

Provoker:

Paul Knaapen

08:10

Live Case 7 – Double Distal Radial – DDR

From University Hospital Basel, Switzerland

Operators: Felix Woitek & Claudiu Ungureanu

08:40

Live Case 8 – Become the second operator

From Mediclin Heart Center, Lahr, Germany

Operators: Myron Zaczkiewicz and you ?

09:10

Live Case 9 – Turkish coffee

From Memorial Bahçelievler Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Operators: Omer Goktekin & Ahmed Shaker

Debate: access for CTO and CHIP PCI

+ Femoral only – set up for success.

Paul Knaapen

+ Distal radial is the state of the art.

Juan Iglesias

+ Hybrid access is most effective and safe.

Dan Ioanes

+ Is there a consensus in a polarized world?

Stefan Harb

10:30

Coffee Break and visit of the Exhibition

11:00

SESSION 6 – GOING LIVE AGAIN

Coordinator:

Mario Araya

Director:

João Brum-Silveira

Virtual proctor:

Mihajlo Kovačić

Digital moderator:

Nathalie Noirclerc

Provoker:

Jurij Avramovic

11:00

Live Case 10 – The French Connection

From Infirmerie Protestante, Lyon, France

Operators: Benjamin Faurie & Jean-Baptiste Esteve

11:30

Live Case 11 – From the parliament

From Lindenhofspital Bern, Switzerland

Operators: Achim Büttner & Tim Schäufele

12:00

Live Case 12 – No complication this time

From University Hospital Basel, Switzerland

Operators: Bilal Iqbal & Alexandre Avran

12:30

Lunch and visit of the Exhibition

13:30

SESSION 7 – NO TRACE

Coordinator:

Göran Olivecrona

Director:

Max Will

Virtual proctor:

Konstantin Schwarz

Digital moderator:

Alexander Geppert

Provoker:

Marouane Boukhris

PCI Twitter – Chances, Challenges and drawbacks of …

+ DCBs.

Tuomas Rissanen

+ DESs.

Jurij Avramovic

+ Scaffolds.

Gregor Leibundgut

+ Hybrid.

Daniel Weilenmann

+ moderator: search for a concensus.

Tuomas Rissanen

14:30

SESSION 8 – THE SWISS CHIP COMPLICATION CASE CONTEST 2025

Coordinator:

Amr El Hadidy

Commentator

Alexandre Quadros

Commentator:

Alexandru Achim

Commentator:

Marin Postu

«An educative case I absolutely want to share with you»

Swiss CHIP Complication case presented by participants

+ Cuttering Technique in RCA CTO: An Unexpected Turn

Gherasie Flavius

+ An Unexpected guest

Muenpetch Muenkaew

+ Coronary perforation: the good, the bad and the ugly

Neisser Morales

+ The set up shot nightmare!

Aymen Ben Abdessalem

+ Complication during left main stenting of Medina 0,0,1

Kristian Wachtell

+ Subintimal STEMI; embrace the silver lining

Jack Andrews

+ Left main dissection with distal flap embolization: complex PCI with a twist(er)

Giuseppe Colletti

+ A very unusual complication of an acute myocardial infarction

Kudret Keskin

+ Why, oh why, did I pull my LAD wire?

Alexander den Hartog

+ When the balloon popped and the heart stopped – a rare case of IVL rupture

Maciej Cieslik

16:10

Voting for the best educative case

Gregor Leibundgut & Daniel Weilenmann

16:15

And the winner is…

Gregor Leibundgut & Daniel Weilenmann

16:20

Wrap up – end of congress and outlook

Gregor Leibundgut & Daniel Weilenmann

16:30

End of the SWISS CTO & CHIP Summit