Summit 2025

Thursday 25^th & Friday 26^th, September

DAY 1 | THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 25th, 2025

08:00

Welcome & introduction

Gregor Leibundgut, Daniel Weilenmann & Felix Mahfoud

08:10

SESSION 1 – EVIDENCE AND COMMON SENSE

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

+ Evidence for CTO-PCI in impaired LV Function

08:30

Live Case 1 – Down under

09:00

Live Case 2 – The local case

10:00

Live Case 3 – From our guests

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

+ Guidelines – With all respects.

+ Critical controversy.

+ Guidelines – All about sausages.

+ Critical controversy.

10:30

Coffee Break and visit of the Exhibition

11:00

SESSION 2 – NEW AND COMMON TECHNIQUES REVISITED

+ The art of knuckling.

+ From IVUS guided puncture to TD-ADR.

+ HDR and TD-HDR.

+ Tip-in and beyond.

+ Differential resistance wiring.

12:30

Lunch and visit of the Exhibition

13:30

SESSION 3 – MECANISM OF ACTION

13:30

Live Case 4 – From our Guests

14:00

Live Case 5 – No complication this time

14:30

Live Case 6 – Ricky from the Beach

+ Specialty balloons.

+ Calcium morphology, distribution and differential treatement modalities.

+ Laser not only for Jedi.

+ IVL: Shockwave and beyond.

+ Ablation therapies.

16:00

Coffee Break and visit of the Exhibition

16:30

SESSION 4 – THE HISTORY AND THE FUTURE

+ AI in interventional cardiology – Ready to go?

+ The sacred land … all about developing complex PCI in Israel.

+ Invention and the art of swimming with sharks.

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

08:10

Live Case 7 – Double Distal Radial

08:40

Live Case 8 – The President’s Case

09:10

Live Case 9 – Turkish coffee

Access for CTO and CHIP PCI

+ Femoral only – set up for success.

+ Distal radial is the state of the art.

+ Hybrid access is most effective and safe.

+ Is there a consensus in a polarized world?

10:30

Coffee Break and visit of the Exhibition

11:00

SESSION 6 – GOING LIVE AGAIN

11:00

Live Case 10 – Sentai Podcast

11:20

Live Case 11 – From the parliament

11:40

Live Case 12 – The French Connection

12:30

Lunch and visit of the Exhibition

13:30

SESSION 7 – NO TRACE

PCI twitter – Chances, Challenges and drawbacks of …

+ DCBs.

+ DESs.

+ Scaffolds.

+ Hybrid.

+ Moderator: search for a concensus.

14:30

SESSION 8 – THE SWISS CHIP COMPLICATION CASE CONTEST 2025

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

Swiss CHIP Complication case presented by participants

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