Carlo Di Mario (Florence - I) EuroCTO Club President 13th Experts "Live" CTO Workshop 17th–18th September 2021 - Florence, Italy

1. EURO CTO registry 2019
and Future Projects
on behalf of
Sianos, Galassi, Garbo, Avran, Bufe
Werner, Reifart
& All the Club Members Contributing to the Registry
General Assembly of the EuroCTO Club
The EuroCTO Club after COVID-19
Carlo Di Mario, EuroCTO President 2020-23

2. 12/36
22/47
0/1
1/0
4/2
1/2
0/2
0/2
1/0
0/1
1/2
12/2
5/6
5/5
0/1
0/2
3/4
3/1
1/0
1/1
1/1
0/1
0/3
2/0
2/10
2/6
2/12
0/1
0/1
2/0
81 Members/152 Candidate Members/20 Affiliated
253 Total
Members

4. Changes in the Statute on Associate/Candidate
1. Every European interventional cardiologist with profound knowledge and skills in the area of the
association’s aims and who supports its aims can become member of the ECC. There are three types of
membership: members and candidate members. Members are highly experienced operators
recommended by two Board members. Candidates are CTO operators actively interested in CTO topics
as confirmed by 2 full members, the head of their cath lab and their CV. Affiliated members, without
voting rights, are CTO operators active in countries outside Europe actively involved in the educational
activities of the ECC, nominated by 2 full members.
2. The decision to accept a new member will be exercised by a majority decision of the Board. Candidate
members receive their access to register CTO cases in the ERCTO registry through the President or a
Board member assigned that task. They can become regular members after completing 300 CTO cases
and at least 50/year. The promotion will be decided by the Board with majority decision.
8. Candidate members receive the right to vote when they actively participate in the registry for two
years entering at least 50 cases a year.

5. New Statute: Point 7 (Board)
1. The board consists of the following Members: President, President Elect, 3 elected Board
Members, Treasurer, immediate Past-President. Former Past Presidents are invited to attend
the Board meetings but hold no voting rights.
2. The board represents the association judicially and out of court. Two members of the
board together can act as legal representatives, when needed.
3. Board members could be re-elected a further duration of 3 years (maximum consecutive
tenure 6 years).
4. The president will be elected by the General assembly. The president will remain in office until the
elected successor is due to follow
5. The board may nominate a secretary and administrative assistant
6. The board physically meets at least once a year and at least once every three
months via teleconference

6. Board Activities
• Approval New Members
• Update of the EuroCTO Club Database Entries (Werner) & New Analyses
(Predictors retrograde success- Hildick Smith; radial approach: Ladwevic)
• New Consensus documents
• Congress program
• CTO Case of the Month Competition

9. Stylianos Pyxaras & Kambis Mashayekhi
Calcium Treatment in CTO Recanalisation

11. Best CTO Case of the Month
• Dr Pierfrancesco Agostoni, Antwerp, Belgium
• Dr Paul Knaapen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Dr Juan Luis Gutierrez Chico, Marbella, Spain
NOMINATING COMMITTEE:
Heart for CTO Retrograde Wire Escalation & Rota in LAD CTO
(Felix Woitek, Dresden)
Neo-ostium formation: retrograde PCI via SVG for ostial RCA CTO (Share Parfrey, Leeds)
AWE with recently CE-marketed dedicated guidewires
(Niccolò Ciardetti, Florence)
SELECTED CASES:

12. Possible proposals of future Consensus documents:
• CT for planning and guidance of CTO recanalisation
• CTO Training: proposals for a structured curriculum across Europe (in
cooperation with EAPCI)
• ????? (awaiting your input)

14. EURO CTO registry 2019
and Future Projects
on behalf of
Sianos, Galassi, Garbo, Avran, Bufe
Werner, Reifart
& All the Club Members Contributing to the Registry
331 Registered participants on-site
912 Registered Participants via OIC platform

15. WONDR Medical, the largest provider of medical education worldwide, with
an active community of 110k cardiologists, focused on the US and EU but
covering as well as 130 countries beyond.

16. New Data Congress/ Case of the Month
competition

18. EuroCTO in the COVID19 Era: Conclusions
1. The EuroCTO Club keeps growing at a >10% rate per year (Candidate>Members)
2. The largest worldwide CTO Registry remains a goldmine of unique data to exploit
3. The EuroCTO Club remained one of the few successful medical congress held in
presence with a phenomenal increase of its reach thanks to its broadcasting live
(also via WONDR, a medical education platform with >70000 subscribers)
4. Multiple Consensus Documents have been published, initiated or considered
5. The EuroCTO Club did not catch COVID and is still in good health