title: Percutaneous coronary intervention for coronary bifurcation disease: consensus from the first 10 years of the European Bifurcation Club meetings.
abstract: The European Bifurcation Club (EBC) is an independent, non-political and informal "think tank" of scientists with a particular interest in clinical, technical and fundamental aspects of the management of coronary artery bifurcation disease. Bifurcations account for 15-20% of all percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) and remain one of the most challenging lesions in interventional cardiology in terms of procedural success rate as well as long-term cardiac events. The optimal management is, despite a fast growing scientific literature, still the subject of considerable debate, one of the main concerns being the potential increased risk of late stent thrombosis associated with treatment complexity. The EBC was initiated in 2004 and aims to facilitate an exchange of ideas on management of bifurcation disease. The EBC hosts an annual, compact meeting dedicated to bifurcations which brings together physicians, engineers, biologists, physicists, epidemiologists and statisticians for detailed discussions. Every meeting is finalised with a consensus statement which reflects the unique opportunity of combining the opinion of interventional cardiologists with the opinion of a large variety of other scientists on bifurcation management. This year the EBC celebrates its 10-year anniversary. This consensus document represents the summary of the consensus from the last ten years of the annual EBC meetings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Aarhus, Denmark.
authors.forename: Jens Flensted
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Lassen
authors.forename: Niels Ramsing
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Holm
authors.forename: Goran
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stankovic
authors.forename: Thierry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lefèvre
authors.forename: Alaide
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chieffo
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hildick-Smith
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Darremont
authors.forename: Remo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Albiero
authors.forename: Miroslaw
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ferenc
authors.forename: Yves
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Louvard
mesh_terms: D020341:Absorbable Implants; D002309:Cardiology / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D053805:Fractional Flow Reserve, Myocardial; D006801:Humans; D062645:Percutaneous Coronary Intervention / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D015607:Stents; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D054457:Tissue Scaffolds; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional