Treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions, part II: implanting two stents. The 16th expert consensus document of the European Bifurcation Club
EuroIntervention. 2022 May 15:EIJ-D-22-00166. doi: 10.4244/EIJ-D-22-00166. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe European Bifurcation Club (EBC) supports a continuous review of the field of coronary artery bifurcation interventions and aims to facilitate a scientific discussion and an exchange of ideas on the management of bifurcation disease. The recent focus of meetings and consensus statements has been on the technical issues in bifurcation stenting, recognising that the final result of a bifurcation procedure and the long-term outcome for our patients are strongly influenced by factors, including preprocedural strategy, stenting technique selection, performance of optimal procedural steps, the ability to identify and correct complications and finally, and most important, the overall performance of the operator. Continuous refinement of bifurcation stenting techniques and the promotion of education and training in bifurcation stenting techniques represent a major clinical need. Accordingly, the consensus from the latest EBC meeting in Brussels, October 2021, was to promote education and training in bifurcation stenting based on the EBC principle. Part II of this 16th EBC consensus document aims to provide a step-by-step overview of the pitfalls and technical troubleshooting during the implantation of the second stent either in the provisional stenting (PS) strategy or in upfront 2-stent techniques (e.g., 2-stent PS pathway and double kissing crush stenting). Finally, a detaile...
Source: EuroIntervention - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Jens Flensted Lassen Remo Albiero Thomas W Johnson Francesco Burzotta Thierry Lef èvre Tinen L Iles Manuel Pan Adrian P Banning Yiannis S Chatzizisis Miroslaw Ferenc Vladimir Dzavik Dejan Milasinovic Olivier Darremont David Hildick-Smith Yves Louvard Gor Source Type: research