COMPARISON OF BLEEDING DEFINITIONS, BARC, GUSTO, TIMI AND VARC IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING BALLOON AORTIC VALVULOPLASTY: RESULTS FROM A TWO-CENTER REGISTRY

Bleeding is an important safety outcome, and has been defined historically in cardiovascular trials using multiple, heterogeneous definitions. The Bleeding Academic Research Consortium (BARC) standardized bleeding definition was developed to address this. However, a formal comparison of these