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Contributors, vii <p>Foreword, x</p> <p>Acknowledgements, xi</p> <p>1 Classification of coronary artery bifurcation lesions, 1<br /> <i>Victor Legrand</i></p> <p>2 Provisional side branch stenting for the treatment of bifurcation lesions, 8<br /> <i>Thierry Lef evre and Yves Louvard</i></p> <p>3 The Nordic experience, 21<br /> <i>Niels Ramsing Holm, Michael Maeng, Jens Flensted Lassen and Leif Thuesen</i></p> <p>4 Crush and mini-crush, 34<br /> <i>Alfredo R. Galassi, Salvatore Davide Tomasello, Luca Costanzo and Giombattista Barrano</i></p> <p>5 Simultaneous kissing stent technique: A contemporary review, 48<br /> <i>Joseph M. Sweeny and Samin K. Sharma</i></p> <p>6 Stenting for left main coronary artery bifurcation lesions, 57<br /> <i>Seung-Jung Park and Young-Hak Kim</i></p> <p>7 Intravascular ultrasound and new imaging in bifurcation stenting, 65<br /> <i>Seung-Jung Park and Soo-Jin Kang</i></p> <p>8 Drug-eluting balloons and bifurcations, a new future for treatment?, 75<br /> <i>Pierfrancesco Agostoni, Anouar Belkacemi, Michiel Voskuil and Pieter R. Stella</i></p> <p>9 Percutaneous coronary intervention for bifurcation lesions: Bench testing and the real world, 83<br /> <i>John A. Ormiston, Mark Webster and Bruce Webber</i></p> <p>10 Coronary bifurcation stenting and stent thrombosis, 89<br /> <i>Michael Mahmoudi and Ron Waksman</i></p> <p>11 Bifurcation angles during the cardiac cycle, 96<br /> <i>Satoko Tahara, Hiram G. Bezerra, Pieter H. Kitslaar, Johan HC Reiber and Marco A. Costa</i></p> <p>12 OCT in coronary bifurcations, 103<br /> <i>Juan Luis Gutierrez-Chico, Robert Jan van Geuns, Patrick W. Serruys and Evelyn Regar</i></p> <p>13 Bifurcation quantitative coronary angiography, 121<br /> <i>Vivian G. Ng and Alexandra J. Lansky</i></p> <p>14 Evaluation of a dedicated everolimus coated side branch access (SBA) system, 136<br /> <i>Oana Sorop, Heleen M.M. van Beusekom, Evelyn Regar, Li Hui-Ling, Jurgen Ligthart, Katrin Boeke-Purkis and Willem J. van der Giessen</i></p> <p>15 Devices: TriReme, 145<br /> <i>Ricardo A. Costa, Gary Binyamin, Eitan Konstantino and Alexandre Abizaid</i></p> <p>16 Dedicated bifurcation stents: The petal stent, 153<br /> <i>Frederic De Vroey, John A. Ormiston and Mark Webster</i></p> <p>17 The Sideguard Side branch stent, 157<br /> <i>Eberhard Grube</i></p> <p>18 XIENCETM side branch access system for the treatment of bifurcation lesions (XIENCE SBA), 170<br /> <i>Gary M. Idelchik and David G. Rizik</i></p> <p>19 The spherical balloon: A new tool to optimize bifurcation treatment, 178<br /> <i>Remo Albiero</i></p> <p>20 Axxess stent, 187<br /> <i>Stefan Verheye, John E. Shulze and Brett Trauthen</i></p> <p>Index, 195</p>

<p><strong>Ron Waksman, MD,</strong> Professor of Medicine, Director Experimental Cardiology and Co-Director, Department of Cardiology, Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC, USA.

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