The Official Journal of EuroPCR and the European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (EAPCI)
ARC definitions
Identifying stent thrombosis, a critical appraisal of the Academic Research Consortium (ARC) consensus definitions: a lighthouse and as a toe in the water
EuroIntervention Supplement (2008) Vol. 4 (Supplement C) C39-C44.
Pascal Vranckx1,2#, MD; Peter-Paul Kint1, RN; Marie-Angele Morel1, RN; Gerrit-Anne Van Es1, PHD, Patrick W. Serruys3, MD; Donald E. Cutlip4#*, MD
1. Cardialysis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; 2. Virga Jesseziekenhuis, Hasselt, Belgium; 3. Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; 4. Harvard Clinical Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Since the clinical introduction of the first drug-eluting stent (DES), in April 2002, this breakthrough technology, including the sirolimus-eluting coronary stent (SES), the paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES), and m