Live Case at the National Intervention Council

National Intervention Council (NIC) is the interventional arm of Cardilogical Society of India (CSI), the oldest and the most prestigious organization of cardiologists in the country, established to provide forum for practioners of this sub-specialty, representing more than 2200 interventional cardiologists. NIC held a Mid-term Interventional Meeting in the month of April at the Hyderabad International Convention Center, Hyderabad, India. It was a 3 day meeting full of Live Cases from the best Indian & International sites, cutting edge technologies, a wide spectrum of didactic lectures, debates, point of view sessions on hot topics of interventional cardiology and more than 500 case presentations on various complications, nightmares and newer technologies. Dr Shirish MS Hiremath, who is the newly elected President Elect of CSI for 2016-2017 performed live Angioplasty (PTCA) cases from Care Hospital, Hyderabad which was broadcasted live to the Hyderabad Convention Centre. He demonstrated critical Angioplasty case where stent was placed in critical Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery, which is a critical vessel supplying blood to the left heart chamber. Dr Hiremath has been performing such critical angioplasty cases in Pune.