Interventions. Copies: This document is available on the World Wide Web sites of the
American College of Cardiology (www. cardiosource. org), the American Heart Association …

Coronary artery stents revolutionized the practice of interventional cardiology after they were
first introduced in the mid-1980s. Since then, there have been significant developments in …

Aim The present study aimed to assess the benefits of two-stent techniques for patients with
DEFINITION criteria-defined complex coronary bifurcation lesions. Methods and results In …

Background: Provisional stenting (PS) is the most common technique used to treat distal left
main (LM) bifurcation lesions in patients with unprotected LM coronary artery disease …

Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the difference in target lesion failure
(TLF) at 3 years after double kissing (DK) crush stenting versus provisional stenting (PS) for …

The recommendations listed in this document are, whenever possible, evidence based. An
extensive evidence review was conducted through November 2010, as well as selected …

Objectives The aim of this study was to compare clinical outcomes of different bifurcation
percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) techniques. Background Despite several …

Background—The optimal strategy for treating coronary bifurcation lesions remains a
subject of debate. With bare-metal stents, single-stent approaches appear to be superior to …

Abstract The European Bifurcation Club (EBC) is an independent, nonpolitical and informal
“think tank” of scientists with a particular interest in clinical, technical and fundamental …

Abstract The Bifurcation Academic Research Consortium (Bif-ARC) project originated from
the need to overcome the paucity of standardization and comparability between studies …