Summit 2025

Thursday 25th & Friday 26th, September

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DAY 1 | THURSDAY
DAY 2 | FRIDAY

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

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