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

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• Contributors, vii Foreword, xAcknowledgements, xi1 Classification of coronary artery bifurcation lesions, 1Victor Legrand2 Provisional side branch stenting for the treatment of bifurcation lesions, 8Thierry Lef evre and Yves Louvard3 The Nordic experience, 21Niels Ramsing Holm, Michael Maeng, Jens Flensted Lassen and Leif Thuesen4 Crush and mini-crush, 34Alfredo R. Galassi, Salvatore Davide Tomasello, Luca Costanzo and Giombattista Barrano5 Simultaneous kissing stent technique: A contemporary review, 48Joseph M. Sweeny and Samin K. Sharma6 Stenting for left main coronary artery bifurcation lesions, 57Seung-Jung Park and Young-Hak Kim7 Intravascular ultrasound and new imaging in bifurcation stenting, 65Seung-Jung Park and Soo-Jin Kang8 Drug-eluting balloons and bifurcations, a new future for treatment?, 75Pierfrancesco Agostoni, Anouar Belkacemi, Michiel Voskuil and Pieter R. Stella9 Percutaneous coronary intervention for bifurcation lesions: Bench testing and the real world, 83John A. Ormiston, Mark Webster and Bruce Webber10 Coronary bifurcation stenting and stent thrombosis, 89Michael Mahmoudi and Ron Waksman11 Bifurcation angles during the cardiac cycle, 96Satoko Tahara, Hiram G. Bezerra, Pieter H. Kitslaar, Johan HC Reiber and Marco A. Costa12 OCT in coronary bifurcations, 103Juan Luis Gutierrez-Chico, Robert Jan van Geuns, Patrick W. Serruys and Evelyn Regar13 Bifurcation quantitative coronary angiography, 121Vivian G. Ng and Alexandra J. Lansky14 Evaluation of a dedicated everolimus coated side branch access (SBA) system, 136Oana Sorop, Heleen M.M. van Beusekom, Evelyn Regar, Li Hui-Ling, Jurgen Ligthart, Katrin Boeke-Purkis and Willem J. van der Giessen15 Devices: TriReme, 145Ricardo A. Costa, Gary Binyamin, Eitan Konstantino and Alexandre Abizaid16 Dedicated bifurcation stents: The petal stent, 153Frederic De Vroey, John A. Ormiston and Mark Webster17 The Sideguard Side branch stent, 157Eberhard Grube18 XIENCETM side branch access system for the treatment of bifurcation lesions (XIENCE SBA), 170Gary M. Idelchik and David G. Rizik19 The spherical balloon: A new tool to optimize bifurcation treatment, 178Remo Albiero20 Axxess stent, 187Stefan Verheye, John E. Shulze and Brett TrauthenIndex, 195