Scientific Program
| The Oscars of CTO: a joint Romanian and Hungarian CTO Workshop Pre-Workshop Course, November 13, 2025 “Black Hawk down”: Course on complication management *additional registration required |
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| Timeline | Session |
| 12:50 - 13:00 | Let’s meet the directors and read the script! Eric Eeckhout, Lucian Câlmâc, Iulian Matei |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Case presentation session (6 cases, 15 min presentation + discussion) - Best Newcomer Actor |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Lunch Break |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Case presentation Session - The best at their worst – Raspberry Awards |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | To be announced |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Keynote Lecture - Conflicts in the Cathlab (“GOT: A song of Ice and Fire”) Eric Eeckhout |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Hands-on Session (How to be an Executive Producer): 1. Coiling, Perforation managing – “007: No time to die” 2. Lost materials – “Gone with the wind” 3. How to trap and how to snare -“ Catch me if you can” 4. How to close the vascular access - “Stich” 5. “Apollo 13: Houston, we have a problem” - Improvised device manufacturing in the cathlab” |
| The Oscars of CTO: a joint Romanian and Hungarian CTO Workshop Day 1, November 14, 2025 “A CTO day afternoon” |
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| Timeline | Session |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Opening remarks – “Of all the CTO workshops in all the towns in all the world, you walk into ours” Virgil Popa, Mircea Ioachim Popescu, Tibor Szuk, Gheorghe Carp |
| 08:30 - 08:45 | Romanians and Hungarian joining forces – “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship” Tibor Szuk, Virgil Popa |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Braveheart – objectives and concept “They may take our” materials “but they will never take our” passion! Mihnea Nichita-Brendea |
| 09:15 - 12:15 | And the Oscar for best procedure goes to: “Dances with the wolves (CTOs)” Case 1 from Oradea Case 2 from Oradea Case 1 from Cluj-Napoca Case 1 from Debrecen |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | AngioCT guided CTO: “The silver linings” |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 - 16:45 | Best CTO in a leading role: “Training day” Case 3 from Oradea Case 4 from Oradea Case 1 from Gyula Case 2 from Cluj-Napoca |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | “One flew over the CTO’s Nest” - Case competition (what would you do/what did I do) Judges: Lucian Câlmâc, Marin Postu, Imre Ungi, Tibor Szuk |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | “CTO fiction” - How to puncture the proximal cap Claudiu Ungureanu |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | “The path of the CTO operator is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and goodwill, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper” From CTO operator to mentor and visionary (DANUBE CHIP and CTO) Stefan Harb |
| The Oscars of CTO: a joint Romanian and Hungarian CTO Workshop Day 2, November 15, 2025 “Life is like a box of CTOs. You never know what you’re going to get!” |
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| Timeline | Session |
| 09:00 - 12:00 | Best CTO in a supporting role: The CTO Hunter Case 5 from Oradea Case 6 from Oradea Case 1 from Szeged Case 2 from Debrecen |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Best young procedure in a leading role: HDR “pot-pouri” Special lecture by the Director: Mauro Carlino |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Best special effects: TD HDR and TD ADR Special lecture from the Producer: Fujita Tsutomu/ Maksymilian Opolski |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | The Bridges of CTO country - new subsets of lesions for HDR |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | “The French connection” and “the Italian Job” – SAFER, RODIN, STRIVE |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | “All those CTOs will be lost in time, like tears in rain” - Final words Mihnea Nichita Brendea, Virgil Popa Tibor Szuk |
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