The Live Summit of Indo-Japanese CTO Club (IJCTO) concluded here on Sunday with Japanese experts and their Indian counterparts holding a chain of minimal invasive coronary angioplasty in Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) cases at different super-specialty hospitals in various States.
The surgeries were transmitted live to demonstrate and share the newer techniques and skills and hold deliberations with more than 500 expert cardiologists attending the summit at Le Meridian Convention Centre here.
The Japanese experts and faculty comprising Dr. Etsu Tsuchikane, Dr. Kenyu Nasu, Dr. Masahisa Yamane, Dr. Toshiya Muramatsu, Dr. Yuji Hamazaki and Dr. Maota Habara present at the summit flew to various hospitals for the live operations.
They joined Dr. Prathap Kumar at Meditrina Hospital, Kollam; Dr. V. Suryaparakasa Rao at Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad; Dr. P.K. Goel at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, and Dr. A.V. Ganesh Kumar at Hiranandani Hospital, Mumbai, to conduct live angioplasty.
Normally, in the percutaneous coronary intervention a thin flexible tube (catheter) is threaded to the affected coronary artery. However, in more than 10 percent of patients, there could be CTO, the blockage being too hard or calcified, making normal intervention difficult.
The minimal invasive treatment pioneered by Japanese experts employs techniques to remove most of these complex and complete blocks in a “retrograde method” as was demonstrated by intervention cardiologist Dr. Etsu Tsuchikane.
