Percutaneous coronary intervention for coronary bifurcation disease: Consensus from the first 10 years of the European Bifurcation Club meetings

EuroIntervention

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 545-560

  Lassen, Jens Flensted ^a   Holm, Niels Ramsing ^a   Stankovic, Goran ^b   Lefèvre, Thierry ^c   Chieffo, Alaide ^d   Hildick Smith, David ^e   Pan, Manuel ^f   Darremont, Olivier ^g   Albiero, Remo ^h   Ferenc, Miroslaw ⁱ   Louvard, Yves ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c INSTITUT CARDIOVASCULAIRE PARIS SUD   (France)

^d SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e UK   (United Kingdom)

^f HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO REINA SOFÍA   (Spain)

^g CLINIQUE SAINT AUGUSTIN   (France)

^h Clinica S Rocco   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER FREIBURG BAD KROZINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVEROLIMUS;

AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CARDIOVASCULAR STENT; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY BIFURCATION LESION; CRUSH TECHNIQUE; CULOTTE TECHNIQUE; DEDICATED BIFURCATION STENT SYSTEM; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; SIMULTANEOUS KISSING STENT TECHNIQUE; STENT THROMBOSIS; T STENTING TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TWO STENT TECHNIQUE; V STENT TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR ACCESS; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; CARDIOLOGY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEVICES; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; NOMENCLATURE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; STENT; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; CARDIOLOGY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; STENTS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84907525004     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV10I5A97     Document Type: Article

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