The CTO Club in 2020 was canceled due to the COVID-19 infection that began in early 2020. Almost a year has passed, but the COVID-19 situation remains unpredictable, and it is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. However, academic conferences and live demonstrations are indispensable for the advancement and introduction of new PCI technology. For this reason, the CTO Club has decided to hold the CTO Club 2021 with the live demonstrations on June 11 and 12, 2021. With consideration to the situation of continued COVID-19 infections, we are planning to hold a hybrid-type conference: an online format for overseas and an online and offline (participatory) format for domestic participants.
The CTO Club has showed various innovative techniques and devices to overcome the complex CTO lesions for more than 20 years. Recently, the success rate of CTO PCI is over 90% according to data from the Japanese Expert Registry. The algorithm from the Asia Pacific CTO Club in order to treat CTO lesions has been commonly used and has been greatly contributing to standardize the CTO PCI procedures in many countries. As with the previous CTO Clubs, the 21st CTO Club in 2021 will also show the latest CTO expert's techniques and the new devices in the live demonstrations and share them all over the world. There will not only be the live demonstrations, but also educational sessions and joint sessions from other countries via online in order to find clues in solving the remaining current problems with CTO PCI.
The CTO Club will continue to strive to standardize the CTO PCI procedures and to contribute to the development of new techniques and devices to solve these remaining problems. We are looking forward to seeing you at the 21st CTO Club in 2021.