Apollo Hospitals and Indo-Japanese CTO Club (IJCTO) hosted the largest International Meeting in Southeast Asia on Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) in Hyderabad on June 3.

Renowned CTO specialists from Japan and Europe joined the Apollo Hospitals team led by Dr Surya Prakasa Rao, Dr P L N Kapardhi, to demonstrate complex CTO techniques to over 1000 delegates from Asia Pacific Countries. Eighteen complex cases were successfully treated using the technique during the workshop, a hospital statement here said.

The hardenedblocks in the heart’s arteries are conventionally treated by performing Bypass Surgery. However, the new and minimally invasive technique called CTO PCI, enables such blocks to be cleared by avoiding surgery and is devoid of all the complications associated with surgery. The patient recovery through CTO PCI is much rapid.

Doctors from Japan, Dr Masahisa Yamane, Dr Kenya Nasu, Dr Yuji Hamazaki, Dr Yasuhi Asakura, Dr Koshi Matsuo, Dr Wataru Nagamatsu,and European experts Prof. Alfredo R Galassi, Prof. Gerald Werner, Dr Tammam Khalid, Dr Arun Kalyan Sundaram, joined the team from Apollo Hospitals of Dr Surya Prakasa Rao, Dr Kapardhi, Dr Narayana Rao, Dr Sunil Kumar, Dr Vishwanath, Dr Priyen Kantilal Shah, Dr Satyajit G Mehetre, Dr Srivastva and actively participated in the Live Workshop.