Pakistan Society of Interventional Cardiology (PSIC) was held in both form of online and offline meeting on August 13-15, 2021. PSIC has now become the most attended academic involvement in Pakistan since its initiation in 2005. This meeting was organized by the Pakistan Society of Interventional Cardiology (PSIC) in collaboration with the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) , Complex Cardiovascular Catheter Therapeutics (C3), the Pakistani Cardiac Society (PCS), Left Main And Bifurcation Summit (CBS), and Asia Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology (APSIC). The course is designed by a team of world-renowned interventional cardiologists by providing an academic exchange platform for worldwide scholars via live demonstration of intervention in left main artery, bifurcation, chronic total occlusive , structural heart disease, and peripheral vascular disease, etc.

Pakistan is one of the first countries to join the “Belt and Road Initiative”, and health cooperation is an important part. As early as 2015, the cardiology team led by Professor Shaoliang Chen of Nanjing First Hospital started to carry out cardiovascular interventional technology exchanges with the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Pakistan. "China-Pakistan Forum" of CBS 2019 invited more than ten cardiovascular experts and interventionists from the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases of Pakistan and the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) to have full technical exchanges with Chinese cardiovascular experts. At PSIC 2021, Professor Shaoliang Chen and Professor Junjie Zhang and their team were invited to live demonstrate a interventional case in complex left main disease.

A 44 year old male patient, 1 month before this encounter was angiographically confirmed as left main artery disease with three-vessel disease, aneurysm at LCx ostium, high risk, tough case to intervene, patient and family refused CABG, wanted PCI. This patient came to Nanjing First Hospital seeking the help of Professor Shaoliang Chen with recommendation by well-known domestic hospitals in Beijing and Shanghai. On August 10, with guidance of IVUS, the team of Professor Shaoliang Chen started the treatment with stage PCI. First, distal lesion of RCA with drug-coated balloon and then on August 14, Live demo of LMCAD by Professor Shaoliang Chen. Two Chinese domestic Firehawk stents were implanted with the guidance of QFR and IVUS. Dr. Zubair Akram, the host of the conference, spoke highly of interventional techniques of Professor Shaoliang Chen's team.

The successful exchange of live demonstration not only provided professional treatment strategy for left main CAD and complex bifurcation lesions. At the same time, we sended out our message, Chinese original medical technology as response to the “Belt and Road Initiative” , to the world, for the world.