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Abstract
The European Bifurcation Club (EBC) was initiated in 2004 to support a continuous
overview 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 EBC hosts an annual, two-day compact meeting, dedicated to bifurcations,
which brings together physicians, pathologists, engineers, biologists, physicists,
mathematicians, epidemiologists and statisticians for detailed discussions. Every
meeting is finalised with a consensus statement that reflects the unique opportunity
of combining the opinion of interventional cardiologists with the opinion of a large
variety of other scientists on bifurcation management. A series of consensus sessions
dedicated to specific topics, to strengthen the consensus debates and focus the discussions,
was introduced at this year's meeting. The sessions comprise an intensive overview
of the present literature, a pro and con debate and a voting system, to guide the
consensus-building process. The present document represents the summary of the up-to-date
EBC consensus and recommendations from the 12th annual EBC meeting in 2016 in Rotterdam.
The goal of this study was to assess the clinical impact of optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
This study sought to present a novel computer model for fast computation of myocardial fractional flow reserve (FFR) and to evaluate it in patients with intermediate coronary stenoses.