CCT 2004
October 21(thu.)-23(sat.), 2004
Kobe International Exhibition Hall
Portopia Hotel
CCT 2005
October 22(thu.)-24(sat.), 2005
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Percutaneous coronary intervention now
occupies a major role in the treatment of ischemic heart disease.
Restenosis remains Intervention’s Achilles heel, but new approaches
to stenting technique combined with the efficacy of radiation therapy
for in-stent restenosis and the anti-restenotic properties of drug-eluting
stents have enhanced the long-term effectiveness and reliability of
interventional therapies across-the-board.
Advances in i nterventional
devices have been startling, and these advances point the way towards
two future paths for the clinical application of the newly available
technologies. One is to use these devices for established best-practice
intervention to intervene in the lesion ever more speedily and ever
less invasively, with the increasing use of the radial approach for
excellent stenting results being the obvious example. The other is
to exploit these new devices to intervene in lesions that until now
have been untreatable, all the time trying to guarantee higher and
higher procedural success and safety rates, namely in intervention
for chronic total occlusions and left main trunk disease. While decisions
on how best to reflect technological advance in individual cases are
the responsibility of the operator, this responsibility comes with
the obligation for every operator to be armed with the widest possible
array of treatment options and to bring the full range of a wealth
of experience and expertise to bear on everyday practice. The non-invasive
nature of coronary intervention gives it an enduring appeal over bypass
surgery, which is not to denigrate bypass surgery, which has itself
seen impressive advances, such as in the use of arterial grafts but
the future will surely see these two strategies attaining ever higher
levels of sophistication and advancing in tandem to provide ever better
treatment for ischemic heart disease.
The CCT2003 will offer a significant forum for fully exploring the
exciting realities of state-of-the-art coronary intervention, peripheral
intervention and coronary bypass surgery and their application in
“Real World” procedures. We look forward to seeing you there.
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