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EBC meeting in Budapest, Hungary on Friday 22nd & Saturday 23rd October 2010.

EBC meeting in Budapest, Hungary on Friday 22nd & Saturday 23rd October 2010.

The club's main activity in its first year after the EBC meeting in Bordeaux (September 2005) focused on building up the meeting's concept, producing its DVD, which was then distributed to all attendees, along with producing a consensus article for the Special Issue of the PCR Euro Intervention.

In its second year, the EBC conducted its meeting in Rome (September 2006); it produced a DVD and carried out short technical meeting on QCA during PCR 2006, which led to a consensus proposal in Rome by Alexandra Lansky (Paper published in Catheterization and Cardiovascular Intervention and used as a reference for new QCA softwares developped for bifurcation lesion analysis). A consensus article has been published too in the EuroIntervention journal after the EBC meeting in Rome. An article was published in the CCVI also early 2008 defining a new common language, result of a collective work.

The 3rd meeting in Valencia, Spain saw some evident changes: The creation of workshops dedicated to essential anatomy and the function of the coronary vessels, the flow in bifurcations, new imaging techniques, thrombotic risk and also the creation of industry workshops prepared by the Sponsors themselves as well as one investigators meeting.

We had a 4 and 5th meeting in Prague and then Berlin were the discussions in the wide field of bifurcation continued to be very active (not only for technical approach but also for the comprehension of anatomy, physiology and rheology of this complex lesion). The consensus paper will be published in the may issue of Eurointervention.

We think that the club's activity has motivated the realisation of studies of a new generation, not limited to the comparison of simple techniques or complex in more or less defined groups but stricter which enable new ideas to develop and which will be the base of the EBC 2010 in Budapest.

We will have an update on the latest technical improvements that may contribute to improve the acute and long term results including the dole of dedicated devices. We will also review the bench and virtual bench data as well as clinical data comparing different techniques or strategy well described in similar populations now increasingly reported or published.

The treatment of the Distal Left Main trunk will benefit this year from the contribution of several important studies.

We hope that we will be able to present the first study realised with a Company grant under the auspices of the EBC.

In the field of dedicated devices, we will only introduce new materials or/and new data. There will be time and space allocated to the main sponsors to present their material.

Please contact Alexandra: alexandra@medi8events.com

The final program of the Budapest meeting is not finalised and we are open to suggestions from both doctors and industry.

The very strong bonds forged during our five EBC meetings to date were mainly due to its informal aspect, which we still value and encourage. The invited delegates will also enjoy the chance to network at our final gala dinner.

Continuing to explore nice and historical cities in Europe, we have chosen the destination of Budapest and we will handpick approximately 100 Key Opinion Leaders in the Interventional Cardiology field. We significantly need your support to ensure we are able to build a successful meeting.

Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Many thanks for all your help and support and we are looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind Regards,
The EBC Committee:
R. Albiero, O. Darremont, M. Ferenc, D. Hildick-Smith, J. Lassen, T. Lefèvre, Y. Louvard, M. Pan, and G. Stankovic

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(07/10/2010)