About PCR-CIS

  • 2021 First PCR Seminar CIS, Moscow
  • ≈500 participants in Tashkent 2026
  • 3 host countries so far
  • 2 days of cases, debate and practice

PCR

Leading the way in cardiovascular medicine

PCR is the world's foremost authority in interventional cardiovascular medicine, with courses including EuroPCR, AsiaPCR, GulfPCR and AfricaPCR.

Its mission is to meet the needs of each individual patient by fostering knowledge, experience and practice within the cardiovascular community — through annual courses, journals, textbooks and online education on coronary and peripheral interventions, valvular disease and heart failure.

PCR Seminars in the CIS

  1. 2021

    Moscow, Russia

    21–22 October 2021 — the first PCR Seminar CIS–Russia, in person: complex coronary lesions, bifurcations and chronic total occlusions (CTOs).

    Hotel Ukraina, Moscow. Photo: okruz, CC0, Wikimedia Commons

  2. 2025

    Almaty, Kazakhstan

    21–22 February 2025 — Left main, bifurcations and complex PCI — case by case

  3. 2026

    Tashkent, Uzbekistan

    24–25 April 2026 — Left main and bifurcation PCI, hands-on with the PCR faculty

Almaty 2025

Left main, case by case

The Almaty seminar on left main stenosis brought together around 250 participants, led by PCR faculty members Martine Gilard (France) and Marko Noč (Slovenia) with seven regional experts from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia.

It covered the culotte technique, DK-crush and left main disease in acute coronary syndromes, with step-by-step clinical reasoning, open debate and simultaneous interpretation.

Tashkent 2026

Uzbekistan joins the cycle

On 24–25 April 2026 the Association of Interventional Cardiologists and Endovascular Surgeons of Uzbekistan and Raymed-CELT held PCR Seminars in Tashkent, alongside the II International Congress of Interventional Cardiologists and Endovascular Surgeons of Uzbekistan.

Two days built on clinical cases: live case reviews with intravascular imaging, complications in acute coronary syndromes, and open discussion with the audience.

Organiser

Raymed Group

Raymed Group — RK Group, Raymed and the CELT multidisciplinary clinic — works with leading scientific societies and universities to train specialists across borders.

Together with PCR and the national societies of interventional cardiology, we are building annual seminars in the major cities of the CIS.