CTO Club

Course Objectives

In recent years, the technology of CTO-PCI has evolved dramatically. Since the CTO Club is a meeting specialized in CTO-PCI, we can share more specialized live demonstrations introducing a detailed knowledge of the CTO devices, and learn techniques, technologies, and strategies in this field.

The program includes CTO live demonstrations, the latest research findings, case presentations, and educational sessions by expert operators from Japan and abroad, and we sincerely hope that an active discussion will be held while sharing your valuable experiences and opinions. We also hope to build a new network through this meeting and to deepen future collaboration in clinical practice and research of CTO-PCI.

The 25^th CTO Club will be held on June 13^th and 14^th, 2025. We believe that your participation will be an opportunity for you to spend quality time and contribute to the further development of CTO-PCI.

We look forward to seeing you in Nagoya.

The 25^th CTO Club Representative Course Director
Hiroyuki Tanaka (Kurashiki Central Hospital)

Directors

Course Directors

Maoto Habara
Toyohashi Heart Center

Yuji Hamazaki
Ootakanomori Hospital

Michiya Kageyama
Nasu Red Cross Hospital

Yoshifumi Kashima
Sapporo Cardio Vascular Clinic

Hiromasa Katoh
Fukui Prefectural Hospital

Shunsuke Matsuno
The Cardiovascular Institute

Wataru Nagamatsu
Hokusetsu General Hospital

Kenya Nasu
Mie Heart Center

Yuji Oikawa
The Cardiovascular Institute

Atsunori Okamura
Sakurabashi Watanabe Advanced Healthcare Hospital

Kenichiro Shimoji
Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital

Hiroyuki Tanaka
Kurashiki Central Hospital

Takafumi Tsuji
Kusatsu Heart Center

Junji Yajima
The Cardiovascular Institute

Ryohei Yoshikawa
Sanda City Hospital

International Course Directors

Coming soon

Honorary Co-directors

Yasushi Asakura
Aqua Rehabilitation Hospital

Yasumi Igarashi
Sapporo-Kosei General Hospital

Osamu Katoh

Eisho Kyo
Kusatsu Heart Center

Masahiko Ochiai
Showa University, Northern Yokohama Hospital

Satoru Otsuji
Higashi Takarazuka Satoh Hospital

Takahiko Suzuki
Toyohashi Heart Center

Etsuo Tsuchikane
Toyohashi Heart Center

Kinzo Ueda
Takase Memorial Hospital

Masahisa Yamane
Saitama Sekishinkai Hospital

Faculty

International Faculty

Coming soon

Japanese Faculty

Kazuhiro Ashida
Seirei Yokohama Hospital

Takenori Domei
Kokura Memorial Hospital

Masaki Fujita
Edogawa Hospital

Shinya Fujita
Hamamatsu Medical Center

Rei Fukuhara
Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki General Medical Center

Ichiro Hamanaka
Rakuwakai Marutamachi Hospital

Katsuyuki Hasegawa
Higashi Takarazuka Satoh Hospital

Taishi Hirai
Gifu Heart Center

Hiroaki Hirase
Takaoka Minami Heart Center

Fumitaka Hosaka
Okamura Memorial Hospital

Shingo Hosogi
Hosogi Hospital

Yusuke Hosokawa
Nippon Medical School Musashi Kosugi Hospital

Shozo Ishihara
Mimihara General Hospital

Masato Ishikawa
Fujita Health University School of Medicine

Yoshiaki Ito
Saiseikai Yokohama-City Eastern Hospital

Seiji Kano
Mie Heart Center

Kenji Kawajiri
Matsubara Tokushukai Hospital

Shunsuke Kitani
Sapporo-Kosei General Hospital

Norihiro Kobayashi
Saiseikai Yokohama-City Eastern Hospital

Tomoko Kobayashi
Kyoto Katsura Hospital

Yuichi Kobori
Toda Chuo General Hospital

Hiroaki Matsuda
Nagoya Heart Center

Koshi Matsuo
Yao Tokushukai General Hospital

Takanobu Mitarai
Ooita Oka Hospital

Mitsunori Mutou
Kikuna Memorial Hospital

Masakazu Nagaoka
Ebina General Hospital

Yuya Nakagawa
Hakodate Medical Association Hospital

Takeshi Niizeki
Okitama Public General Hospital

Hisayuki Okada
Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital

Masaharu Okada
Omi Medical Center

Masaaki Okutsu
Tokai University Hachioji Hospital

Makoto Sekiguchi
Fukaya Red Cross Hospital

Takeshi Serikawa
Fukuoka Wajiro Hospital

Yoshinori Shimooka
Hokushinkai Megumino Hospital

Satoshi Suzuki
Kindai University Nara Hospital

Takahide Suzuki
JA Hokkaido Asahikawa Kosei General Hospital

Kaname Takizawa
JCHO Sendai Hospital

Masaki Tanabe
Nozaki Tokushukai Hospital

Kota Tanaka
Sakurabashi Watanabe Advanced Healthcare Hospital

Tomohiro Yamaguchi
Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine

Masataka Yoshinaga
Fujita Health University

Program

Under Construction

Call for Cases

日本語はこちら

Education requires the sharing of experiences. For this reason, the 25^th CTO Club is making a Call for Cases. The theme is "My most impressive case in CTO PCI".

Physicians and fellows may submit one of their own clinical cases from the field of CTO. Each submitted case will be assessed by CTO Club Course Directors. Four exemplary cases will be selected as "oral presentation" at the Case Competition, and other cases with honorable mention will be selected as “poster posting” at the venue during the 25^th CTO Club.

Registration fee will be free for “oral presentation” and “poster posting” presenters. The best case of the Case Competition will receive an award and the presenter will be invited to be a CTO Club faculty member in 2026.

[1] Theme

"My most impressive case in CTO PCI"

[2] Submission period

Thursday, February 6 – Friday, March 21, 2025(JST)

Case submission is now closed.
Thank you for your active submissions.

[3] Submission

Complete the online submission form below.
After sending the form, registration number will be issued and also sent by e-mail.
Please send case data in DICOM format to CTO Club Administration Office by one of the following methods.
*The file must be in DICOM format. Any other format and PowerPoint slides will not be accepted.

[How to submit your case DICOM data]

Case data submission URL
Please upload your case data on the case data submission URL sent by the confirmation e-mail.
You are requested to create a zip file contains all DICOM files with your registration number as the file name. Ex) C099.zip
Please note that the confirmation e-mail might be delivered to a SPAM folder of your mail box. If you do not receive the confirmation e-mail, please contact the CTO Club Administration Office.
Data Sharing Web Server (e-mail)
If you cannot use the case data submission URL, please upload the zip file on web servers (Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, etc.) and send a downloading URL to CTO Club Administration Office by e-mail.
Courier Service
If you cannot upload the case data on the web, please send it with CD-R or USB Memory Stick with the confirmation e-mail to CTO Club Administration Office.

<Shipping Address>

CTO Club Administration Office: Case Competition

Central Residence 201, 48 Higashiodawaracho, Toyohashi, Aichi 440-0886, JAPAN
TEL +81-532-21-5731 / E-MAIL cto@uproses.co.jp

[4] Submission Notes *Please read carefully before submission.

[Case Body]

Language: English/Japanese *Case title must be in English.
The total number of words must be less than 450 words.
Should be composed of "Target Lesion", "Strategy" and "Final Result".
Using table or chart is not acceptable.

[Case Data]

The case data file must be in DICOM format. Any other format and PowerPoint slides will not be accepted.
Please create a zip file contains all DICOM files with your registration number as the file name. Ex) C099.zip
When using web servers (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc.) to send the data, please upload all DICOM files and create a downloading URL.
Please clearly indicate the registration number on the CD-R or USB Memory Stick when sending the data by courier service.
Please note that we will NOT accept the case data sent as an e-mail attachment in order to avoid file corruption.

[5] Acceptance/Rejection Announcement

The 25^th CTO Club Course Directors reserve the right to make final decision on acceptance/rejection of cases. The results will be posted on CTO Club website and notified by e-mail in the mid April, 2025.

Registration

Pre-registration will start from April 1, 2025.

Registration Period

Pre-Registration Period: Friday, April 1 – Friday, May 30, 2025 (JST)
On-Site Registration Period: Saturday, May 31 – Saturday, June 14, 2025 (JST)

Registration Fee

Category	Pre-registration (by May 30)	Regular Registration (from May 31)
Medical (Overseas)	23,000 JPY	30,000 JPY
Medical Staff (Overseas)	2,000 JPY	3,000 JPY
Industry (Overseas)	23,000 JPY	30,000 JPY
Webcast Only	3,000 JPY	3,000 JPY
Medical Intern/Student^*	Free	Free

* Registration fees of Medical Intern and Student are free. Please send an e-mail to Administration Office (cto@uproses.co.jp) with the following information to make registration.
1) Name 2) Affiliation 3) Telephone Number 4) e-mail address
Please also attach a certificate or ID showing you are currently in the internship (4 years period) after graduation from medical school or studying at the school.

Visa Information

You may be required a visa to enter Japan. It varies by nationality. Please contact your local embassy or consulate of Japan and process your visa if necessary. We recommend you to have enough time for the visa procedure.
You could also obtain some information about the visa to enter Japan from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Website (http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/index.html).

Invitation Letter

On request, CTO Club is pleased to offer a letter of invitation to participate in the 25^th CTO Club. If you need the invitation letter and other documents for VISA application, please contact CTO Club Administration Office (cto@uproses.co.jp) with your registration number by May 16.
Please note that this letter of invitation does not commit CTO Club to any financial supports with regard to your attendance at the 25^th CTO Club.
*24,200 JPY per person will be charged to issue the visa application documents other than the invitation letter.

*The 25^th CTO Club is using a registration system of “Heartmeetings-plus.com”. You are required to create your user account at Heartmeetings-plus.com in order to complete registration.

参加登録期間

事前参加登録期間: 2025年4月1日（火）〜5月30日（金）
※5月31日（土）以降は、当日参加登録費にてご登録いただけます。

参加登録費

区分	事前参加登録（5/30 まで）	通常参加登録（5/31 より）
メディカル／国内居住者	20,000円	25,000円
メディカル／海外居住者	23,000円	30,000円
メディカルスタッフ	2,000円	3,000円
企業／国内居住者	20,000円	25,000円
企業／海外居住者	23,000円	30,000円
Web視聴（会場参加なし）	3,000円	3,000円
研修医／学生^※	無料	無料

※研修医および学生の方の参加登録費は無料です。事務取扱（cto@uproses.co.jp）まで、
①氏名　②所属施設　③連絡先電話番号　④メールアドレス
をご連絡ください。その際、学生の方は学生証を添付、研修医の方は研修医指導責任者の署名・捺印がある研修医証明書（参考雛形）を添付ください。

*参加登録は、『Heartmeetings-plus.com』を利用しています。『Heartmeetings-plus.com』のユーザー登録が必要となりますので、ご了承ください。

Accommodation

Contact:

JTB Corp. Western Japan MICE Branch
The 25^th CTO Club Desk

JTB Bldg. 6F, 2-1-25, Kyutaro-machi Chuo-ku Osaka 541-0056
E-mail: westec_op5@jtb.com
Office Hours: 9:30-17:30 (weekdays only)

Future Meetings

CTO Club supported by Complex Cardiovascular Therapeutics

The 26^th CTO Club in 2026
June 26 Fri. - 27 Sat., 2026
WINC AICHI, Nagoya

Complex Cardiovascular Therapeutics (CCT)

CCT2025
October 23 Thu. - 25 Sat., 2025
Kobe International Exhibition Hall, Portopia Hotel, Kobe, Japan