Room 1
08:00-10:45
Morning Session 1
Chairs: Mauro Carlino (Milano), Maksymilian Opolski (Warsaw) Panel: Gabriele Gasparini (Milano), Wojciech Skorupski (Poznań), Mateusz Tajstra (Zabrze), Felix Woitek (Dresden), Wojciech Zimoch (Wrocław)
08:00-08:10
How to build CTO PCI program: “It must be love”
Paul Knaapen (Amsterdam)
08:10-08:20
Quantum leaps in CTO PCI: “Everything you can imagine is real”
Maksymilian Opolski (Warsaw)
08:20
Live Case 1 (Military Hospital in Lublin) – Traditional Japanese Style
Shunsuke Matsuno (Tokyo), Grzegorz Sobieszek (Lublin), Bartosz Zięba (Lublin)
09:00
Live Case 2 (From Sapporo Heart Center) – HDR, TD-HDR, TD-ADR
Tsutomu Fujita (Sapporo), Daitaro Kanno (Sapporo), Yutuka Tadano (Sapporo)
09:40
Live Case 3 (National Institute of Cardiology) – Amsterdam Style
Alexander Paulus Knaap (Amsterdam), Artur Dębski (Warsaw)
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30
Morning Session 2
Chair: Jurij Avramovic (Izola), Goran Olivecrona (Lund) Panel: Sylwia Iwańczyk (Poznań), Mihajlo Kovacic (Cakovec), Marek Radomski (Inowrocław), Zoltán Ruzsa (Szeged), Piotr Wańczura (Rzeszów)
11:00-11:05
CTO toolkit in 2025: “Put your iron hand in a velvet glove”
Mihajlo Kovacic (Cakovec)
11:05-11:10
A brief update on the CTO-DENOVO registry: “Under pressure”
Magdalena Dobrolińska (Katowice)
Battle talk
11:20-11:30
A parachute when things get out of hand: CTO skills are essential
Gabriele Gasparini (Milano)
11:10-11:20
Much fanfare, little function: CTO skills are obsolete
Jurij Avramovic (Izola)
11:30
Live Case 4 (Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw) – Polish-Italian HDR
Piotr Kwiatkowski (Warsaw), Jakub Drozd (Lublin), Mauro Carlino (Milano)
12:00-13:00 Lunch and Industry Sponsored Sessions
13:00-16:00
Afternoon Session 1
Chairs: Gabriele Gasparini (Milano), Ilya Litovchik (Be'er Ya'akov) Panel: Grzegorz Horszczaruk (Łomża), Grzegorz Mężyński (Białystok), Goran Olivecrona (Lund), Daniel Rzeźnik (Cracow), Aleksander Zeliaś (Nowy Sącz)
13:00
Live Case 5 (Military Hospital in Lublin) – Polish-French Hybrid
Grzegorz Sobieszek (Lublin), Sina Porouchani (Lille), Bartosz Zięba (Lublin)
13:40
Live Case 6 (National Institute of Cardiology) – Proctored Case
Umberto Barbero (Savigliano), Maksymilian Opolski (Warsaw), Jarosław Skowroński (Warsaw)
14:30-14:40
IVUS: “I want to hold your hand”
Sa’ar Minha (Be'er Ya'akov)
14:40-14:50
Retrograde or ADR: “We boil at different degrees”
Goran Olivecrona (Lund)
14:50
Live Case 7 (Toronto, Canada) – Difficult Retrograde
Bilal Iqbal (Victoria), Ram Vijayaraghavan (Toronto)
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:15
Afternoon Session 2
Chairs: Leszek Bryniarski (Cracow), Vojtěch Novotný (Pardubice) Panel: Jakub Drozd (Lublin), Alex Nap (Amsterdam), Piotr Pawluczuk (Grodzisk Mazowiecki), Marek Radomski (Inowrocław), Sławomir Surowiec (Warsaw)
16:30-16:40
Complication management: “It requires more courage to continue than to stop”
Ilya Litovchik (Be'er Yaakov)
16:40-16:45
Complication Case 1: “The impossible is what takes a little longer”
Felix Woitek (Dresden)
16:45-16:50
Complication Case 2: “Comfortably numb”
Arkadiusz Pietrasik (Warsaw), Alex Nap (Amsterdam)
16:50-16:55
Complication Case 3: “Chasing Ghosts”
Nichita-Brendea Mihnea (Oradea)
16:55-17:10
Keynote lecture: “If you think it’s going to rain it will”
Keynote TB
17:10-17:15
Closing remarks and adjourn
Maksymilian Opolski (Warsaw)
18:00
