CCT2026

Course Objectives

Japan, especially CCT, has been developed its original treatment strategy for CTO lesions in contrast to other countries where “antegrade approach” which considers utilization of knuckle wire technique in primary selection of polymer jacket wire, and “retrograde approach” which uses surfing technique more than in searching connecting vessels by tip injection, have become the mainstream of treatment strategies.

As an effort to depict lesions missed by angiography, which is the essence of CTO lesions, the way to understand vascular courses using cardiac CT and IVUS has been established as a reproducible method. Furthermore, due to development of AI, you can depict perpendicular view as well as find direction of a wire as angiography by using apps. (Espelux Edu software, 3D wiring) IVUS is now useful not only to check vascular course (wire placement) but also to guide a wire properly. (Tip detection method) We would like you to learn these evolutions, current achievements and tips through various contents centered on Live Case Transmissions.

On the other hand, considering the situation in Japan, the number of ACS lesions with complex anatomy and less vascular flow reserve has increased. Even though many of these lesions are presumably treated by young doctors during nighttime, it is essential to acquire knowledge and techniques of complex PCI in order to treat these lesions at any time.
As it is already stated, there are some differences in techniques for complex PCI such as CTO lesions between Japan and foreign countries. Therefore, having discussions with doctors from all over the world in sessions such as Live Case Transmissions will lead to doubt or confirm your common sense and to expand new perspectives.
Although we have variety of live courses including online in Japan, we believe that CCT is the only course which is able to contribute from this point of view. Please participate on site actively and make full use of this opportunity for energetic exchange with domestic and international participants and expand your perspective.

In addition, we are planning to prepare a program which appeals directly to next-generation doctors’ and medical staffs’ motivation for participation. An exchange using SNS is a modern trend and very convenient, but a humane exchange with eye-to-eye contact on site also has character. We hope you will enhance your complex PCI through various programs.

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Kobe when autumn is in full swing.

CCT2026 Representative Coronary Course Director
Kazuhiro Ashida (Seirei Yokohama Hospital)

Program

Under construction

Honorary Advisors

Yasushi Asakura
Aqua Rehabilitation Hospital

Tomoaki Hinohara
Sequoia Hospital, USA

Yasumi Igarashi
Sapporo-Kosei General Hospital

Keiichi Igarashi Hanaoka
Hanaoka Seishu Memorial Hospital

Osamu Katoh

Eisho Kyo
Kusatsu Heart Center

Satoru Otsuji
Higashi Takarazuka Satoh Hospital

Takahiko Suzuki
Toyohashi Heart Center

Etsuo Tsuchikane
Toyohashi Heart Center

Kinzo Ueda
Medical Corporation Foundation Tokureikai

Masahisa Yamane
Saitama Sekishinkai Hospital

Coronary Course Director

Kazuhiro Ashida
Seirei Yokohama Hospital

Maoto Habara
Toyohashi Heart Center

Ichiro Hamanaka
Rakuwakai Marutamachi Hospital

Yuji Hamazaki
Ootakanomori Hospital

Ken Ishibashi
Tsuchiya General Hospital

Yoshifumi Kashima
Oita Cardiovascular Hospital

Hiromasa Katoh
Fukui Prefectural Hospital

Tomoko Kobayashi
Kyoto Katsura Hospital

Shunsuke Matsuno
The Cardiovascular Institute

Wataru Nagamatsu
Hokusetsu General Hospital

Kenya Nasu
Mie Heart Center

Takeshi Niizeki
Okitama Public General Hospital

Yuji Oikawa
The Cardiovascular Institute

Atsunori Okamura
Sakurabashi Watanabe Advanced Healthcare Hospital

Takeshi Serikawa
Fukuoka Wajiro Hospital

Kenichiro Shimoji
Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital

Hiroyuki Tanaka
Kurashiki Central Hospital

Takafumi Tsuji
Kusatsu Heart Center

Junji Yajima
The Cardiovascular Institute

Masaru Yamaki
Sapporo-Kosei General Hospital

Ryohei Yoshikawa
Sanda Saiseikai Hospital

Coronary Co-Directors

Under construction

International Faculty

Under construction

Japanese Faculty

Kohei Asada
Shiga University of Medical Science

Mitsutoshi Asano
Japan Red Cross Yokohama City Bay Hospital

Hyuma Daidoji
Yamagata Prefectural Central Hospital

Takenori Domei
Kokura Memorial Hospital

Soichiro Ebisawa
Shinshu University

Hiroki Emori
Wakayama Medical University

Kenichi Fujii
Kansai Medical University

Masaki Fujita
Edogawa Hospital

Shinya Fujita
Hamamatsu Medical Center

Rei Fukuhara
Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki General Medical Center

Ryuichi Funada
Kitakanto Cardiovascular Hospital

Atsushi Funatsu
Kyoto Katsura Hospital

Katsuyuki Hasegawa
Higashi Takarazuka Satoh Hospital

Ryuzo Hayashi
General Daiyukai Hospital

Kiyoshi Hibi
Yokohama City University

Hirooki Higami
Teikyo University

Keisuke Hirai
Shin Koga Hospital

Hiroaki Hirase
Takaoka Minami Heart Center

Atsushi Hirohata
The Sakakibara Heart Institute of Okayama

Fumitaka Hosaka
Okamura Memorial Hospital

Shingo Hosogi
Hosogi Hospital

Satoshi Hosokawa
Nippon Koukan Hospital

Yusuke Hosokawa
Nippon Medical School Musashi Kosugi Hospital

Makoto Hoyano
Niigata University Medical & Dental Hospital

Yasuhiro Ichibori
Osaka International Medical & Science Center

Raisuke Iijima
Toho University Medical Center Ohashi Hospital

Shuntaro Ikeda
Ehime University

Tomokazu Ikemoto
Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital

Yuta Imai
Saiseikai Shiga Hospital

Yusuke Inagaki
Saiseikai Kawaguchi General Hospital

Keita Inanaga
Iizuka Hospital

Yasunori Inoguchi
Kanazawa Cardiovascular Hospital

Shozo Ishihara
Mimihara General Hospital

Takayuki Ishihara
Kansai Rosai Hospital

Masato Ishikawa
Fujita Health University Hospital

Yoshiaki Ito
Saiseikai Yokohama-City Eastern Hospital

Takahito Itoh
Oji General Hospital

Michiya Kageyama
Nasu Red Cross Hospital

Takashi Kajiya
Tenyoukai Central Hospital

Kazuho Kamishima
Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center

Hiroto Kano
The Cardiovascular Institute

Seiji Kano
Mie Heart Center

Toru Kataoka
Bellland General Hospital

Kenji Kawajiri
Matsubara Tokushukai Hospital

Yoshiaki Kawase
Gifu Heart Center

Yuetsu Kikuta
Fukuyama Cardiovascular Hospital

Shunsuke Kitani
Sapporo-Kosei General Hospital

Norihiro Kobayashi
Saiseikai Yokohama-City Eastern Hospital

Yuichi Kobori
Toda Chuo General Hospital

Takahide Kodama
Toranomon Hospital

Yasuaki Koga
Oita Prefectural Hospital

Masahiro Koide
Kyoto Second Red Cross Hospital

Ryoji Koshida
Hoshi General Hospital

Ken Kozuma
Teikyo University

Hiroyuki Kunii
Ohara General Hospital

Shoichi Kuramitsu
Sapporo Cardiovascular Clinic

Nehiro Kuriyama
Miyazaki Medical Association Hospital

Kazumasa Kurogi
Miyazaki Prefectural Nobeoka Hospital

Yuichiro Maekawa
Hamamatsu University School of Medicine

Noriko Makiguchi
Hokushinkai Megumino Hospital

Kazunori Masuda
Uji Tokushukai Medical Center

Hiroaki Matsuda
Chuno Kosei Hospital

Ryuichi Matsukawa
Iizuka Hospital

Hidenari Matsumura
Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital

Koshi Matsuo
Yao Tokushukai General Hospital

Yoshiaki Mibiki
Sendai City Hospital

Takanobu Mitarai
Oita Oka Hospital

Kohei Moribayashi
University of Miyazaki

Yoshihiro Morino
Iwate Medical University

Mitsunori Mutou
Kikuna Memorial Hospital

Takuya Myojo
Sapporo Teishinkai Hospital

Taito Nagai
Misato Central General Hospital

Ryoji Nagoshi
Osaka Saiseikai Nakatsu Hospital

Hiroshi Nakagata
Sendai City Hospital

Yuya Nakagawa
Hakodate Medical Association Hospital

Yasuhiro Nakano
Kyushu University Hospital

Marohito Nakata
Urasoe General Hospital

Gaku Nakazawa
Kindai University

Masahiro Natsuaki
School of Medicine, Saga University

Soji Nishio
Kusatsu Heart Center

Kosuke Nomura
Yamanashi Red Cross Hospital

Masatsugu Nozoe
Saiseikai Fukuoka General Hospital

Yoshimi Numao
Itabashi Chuo Medical Center

Yohei Numasawa
Keio University School of Medicine

Yusuke Ochiumi
Hiroshima Heart Center

Toshiharu Oka
Hiroshima Prefectural Hospital

Tomoaki Okada
Kagawa Prefectural Central Hospital

Naotaka Okamoto
Osaka Rosai Hospital

Masaaki Okutsu
Tokai University Hachioji Hospital

Koki Omi
Nihonkai General Hospital

Hiromasa Otake
Kobe University Hospital

Kazuyuki Ozaki
Niigata City General Hospital

Kenichi Sakakura
Jichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center

Masayuki Sakurai
Makita General Hospital

Hideto Sangen
Hakujikai Memorial Hospital

Makoto Sekiguchi
Fukaya Red Cross Hospital

Naoki Shibata
Ogaki Municipal Hospital

Yoshinori Shimooka
Hokkaido Medical Center

Teppei Sugaya
Hanaoka Seishu Memorial Hospital

Atsuhiko Sugimoto
Sagamihara Kyodo Hospital

Takushi Sugiyama
Dokkyo Medical University Nikko Medical Center

Satoshi Suzuki
Kindai University Nara Hospital

Takahide Suzuki
JA Hokkaido Asahikawa Kosei General Hospital

Yoriyasu Suzuki
Aichi Medical University

Akifumi Takada
Steel Memorial Muroran Hospital

Hideo Takebayashi
Fukuyama Cardiovascular Hospital

Toru Takii
Sendai Open Hospital

Kaname Takizawa
JCHO Sendai Hospital

Koichi Tamita
Akashi Medical Center

Masaki Tanabe
Misugikai Satoh Hospital

Kota Tanaka
Sakurabashi Watanabe Advanced Healthcare Hospital

Tomohiko Teramoto
Sakura General Hospital

Masanori Teramura
Ichinomiya Nishi Hospital

Jumpei Todoroki
Chubu Tokushukai Hospital

Satoru Tohara
Tokyo Hikifune Hospital

Takuma Tsuda
Nagoya Ekisaikai Hospital

Hiroaki Tsujita
Showa Medical University Hospital

Tomomi Watanabe
Faculty of Medicine Tottori University

Takayuki Yabe
Toho University Omori Medical Center

Jutaro Yamada
Yamaguchi-ken Saiseikai Shimonoseki General Hospital

Junichi Yamaguchi
Tokyo Women's Medical University

Tomohiro Yamaguchi
Osaka Metropolitan University Hospital

Ryusuke Yamamoto
Takaoka Minami Heart Center

Tetsuya Yamamoto
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine

Jun Yamashita
Tokyo Medical University Hospital

Makoto Yamaura
Central Japan International Medical Center

Seiji Yamazaki
Sapporo Higashi Tokushukai Hospital

Kensuke Yokoi
National Hospital Organization Ureshino Medical Center

Shuichi Yoneda
National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center

Masatoki Yoshida
Okayama University

Ruka Yoshida
Japanese Red Cross Aichi Medical Center Nagoya Daini Hospital

Masataka Yoshinaga
Fujita Health University Bantane Hospital