Penetrating CTO - From Cap to Completion
Key Learning Points of the Program
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Fundamental principles of CTO PCI including indications, patient selection, and setting up for success
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Core CTO approaches including wire escalation, dissection re-entry and retrograde
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Understanding key properties of specialised equipment, their advantages and limitations
- Building confidence as an operator, and how to progress in the specialty
Course directors
Dr Sinjini Biswas
Sinjini Biswas is a newly appointed locum consultant cardiologist at the Bristol Heart Institute,...
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Sinjini Biswas is a newly appointed locum consultant cardiologist at the Bristol Heart Institute, having recently finished a CTO and complex PCI fellowship at the same institution. She graduated from the University of Melbourne and completed her cardiology training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia. She was awarded a scholarship from the National Heart Foundation of Australia to undertake a PhD at Monash University/The Alfred Hospital. She subsequently completed a fellowship in PCI and TAVI at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, before moving to Bristol. She has clinical and research interests in intravascular imaging, treatment of calcific coronary artery disease and cardiovascular outcomes research.
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Dr John D Hung
Dr Hung is a Fellow in Interventional Cardiology, and the co-host of “Penetrating CTO – from cap...
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Dr Hung is a Fellow in Interventional Cardiology, and the co-host of “Penetrating CTO – from cap to completion” on Wondr Medical. He specialises in complex PCI and chronic total occlusion and education in coronary intervention. He is a graduate of the University of Liverpool, where he did much of his postgraduate medical training, before undertaking a period of research at the BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science in Edinburgh. Currently based at St George’s Hospital, London he is an active clinician, researcher and road cyclist.
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Dr Sinjini Biswas
Sinjini Biswas is a newly appointed locum consultant cardiologist at the Bristol Heart Institute,...
Read MoreSinjini Biswas is a newly appointed locum consultant cardiologist at the Bristol Heart Institute, having recently finished a CTO and complex PCI fellowship at the same institution. She graduated from the University of Melbourne and completed her cardiology training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia. She was awarded a scholarship from the National Heart Foundation of Australia to undertake a PhD at Monash University/The Alfred Hospital. She subsequently completed a fellowship in PCI and TAVI at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, before moving to Bristol. She has clinical and research interests in intravascular imaging, treatment of calcific coronary artery disease and cardiovascular outcomes research.
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Dr John D Hung
Dr Hung is a Fellow in Interventional Cardiology, and the co-host of “Penetrating CTO – from cap...
Read MoreDr Hung is a Fellow in Interventional Cardiology, and the co-host of “Penetrating CTO – from cap to completion” on Wondr Medical. He specialises in complex PCI and chronic total occlusion and education in coronary intervention. He is a graduate of the University of Liverpool, where he did much of his postgraduate medical training, before undertaking a period of research at the BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science in Edinburgh. Currently based at St George’s Hospital, London he is an active clinician, researcher and road cyclist.
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Season 1
CTO Fellows Program is made in association with OPTIMA
