The EuroCTO Club was founded on 14 December 2006 in Paris by Joachim Buettner, Carlo di Mario, Dariusz Dudek Gerald S. Werner, George Sianos Nicolaus Reifart, Alfredo R. Galassi, and Hans Bonnier. What started as a small group of physicians interested in chronic total occlusions (CTOs) and complex coronary interventions gradually grew into a larger group of almost 60 full members, spread among all European countries.