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Should we modify the Medina classification?
European Bifurcation Club 2009 – EBC 2009 – Berlin, Germany
Bifurcation lesion and treatment definition
Should we modify the Medina classification?
Author: Dr. Carlo Di Mario, Royal Brompton, London, President EAPCI
CONCLUSION
- Description of bifurcational lesion characteristics – YES
- Still the best qualitative classification
- Subject to moderate interobserver variability
- Definition of strategy and prediction of acute and late results – NO
- SB size and lesion length and severity determinesstrategy
- No prognostic validation