Hyderabad April 2018: Cardiological Society of India
(CSI) is the oldest and the most
prestigious organization of cardiologists in the country. It was founded more
than 60 years ago (4th April 1948) with more than 4000 cardiologists as
members.
National Interventional Council (NIC) - NIC is the Interventional faction of the
Cardiological Society of India (CSI). The first meet of Interventional
Cardiologists in the country was held in Bombay in the year 1985. NIC midterm
meet is the biggest interventional cardiology annual conference in India
attended by super specialists of interventional cardiology, delegates of
pharmaceutical and device industry.
Dr.Sridhar Kasturi, Organizing Secretary, CSI-NIC
Dr.A.Sreenivas Kumar, Chairman - CSI-NIC
NIC will provide a platform and benefit for many
Interventional Cardiologists to update their knowledge and learn new techniques
like LVAD, ECMO, ROTA, IVUS, OCT, FFR and how to perform high-risk complex
interventional procedures and to manage complications during procedures. This
year NIC emphasis on newer techniques like optimization of PCI which will be
helpful in deciding borderline lesions to assess whether the patient really
requires angioplasty stenting or not and also improves the patient outcome
compared to regular angioplasty without image guidance
This year’s 3 days scientific program will cover series of Live
Cases, discussion on cutting edge
technologies , a wide spectrum of didactic lectures, debates, sessions on
concurrent topics of interventional cardiology and case presentations on
various complications, nightmares and techniques
The 6 live case transmissions are from UK, Germany and Italy and cases
will be operated by world renowned interventional cardiologists – Dr. Antonio
Colombo, Dr. E Grube, Dr. George Nickenig, Dr.Lorenzo Azzalani, Dr. Roby
Rakhit, and Dr. Tim Lockie. NIC also showing 16 live transmissions form reputed
hospitals across India, out of which 8 case will be transmitted from Sunshine
Hospitals, Indo-Us Hospitals, Citizen Hospital, Apollo Hospital and
KIMS-Hyderabad.
One case of live transmission will be showing usage of robotic
technology while performing angioplasty, in addition to many newer advanced
procedures like TAVI and LA appendage closure.
During this conference, statistics of Indian data
related to angioplasty and other interventional procedures performed in various
centers of India will be presented. It also stresses on statistics of Indian
stents outcome and safety results and how to offer cost-effective
interventional therapies to common man.
The conference will be held during 11th to 13 May, 2018
at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC) - Novotel , High Tech
city , Hyderabad.