History of IJCTO

In today’s era of expanding Intervention cardiology with improved and user friendly hardware and good long term outcomes largely as a result of improved drug eluting stents and antiplatelet medication, CTO remains one of the important areas of challenge where operator experience and technical expertise still plays an important role in the final success of the procedure. Also this is one area that still needs more learning for all of us with the largest experience existing with the Japanese operators world over.

In light of the same Indo Japanese CTO club was formulated with like-minded people with a view to offer opportunity for greater learning in this field for all. The group had its birth in July 2012 at the 3rd CACTO summit and the 1st live CTO summit India under the aegis of IJCTO was held in Mumbai in June 2013. This was followed by the 2nd summit at Hyderabad in 2014, 3rd summit at Lucknow in 2015, 4TH Summit at Kochi in 2016, 5th summit at Mumbai in 2017, 6th summit at Hyderabad in 2018, 7th summit at Hyderabad in 2019, 8th summit at Delhi and this year it is going to be held at Mumbai in June 2023.