No book can supplant this foundation, but in Cardiac Catheterization and Percutaenous Interventions the authors provide a practical text that creates confidence in performing percutaneous coronary and peripheral intervention.

Cardiac Catheterization and Percutaenous Interventions addresses the basics (things you wouldn't dare to ask), the pitfalls (problems to avoid before you start), the proven approaches (facts you are expected to know), and the new innovations (techniques you will want to be first to perfect).

Contents:

1. Who should not go to the cathlab?
2. Radiation safety in the catheterization laboratory
3. Current use of antiplatelet agents
4. Complications and how to deal with them
5. Vascular access
6. Basic coronary angiography : techniques, tools and troubleshooting
7. Right heart catheterization and hemodynamic profiles
8. Balloon angioplasty
9. Coronary stenting
10. Ablative techniques in coronary intervention
11. Treatment of complex angioplasty subsets
12. Primary angioplasty for acute myocardia infarction
13. The role of distal protection devices
14. Pathophysiology treatment of restenosis
15. Pharmacological treatment of restenosis
16. Mechanical treatment of in-stent restenosis
17. Restenosis and brachytherapy
18. Drug-eluting stents
19. Intravascular ultrasound
20. Physiological assessment of coronary circulation using pressure and Doppler guidewires
21. Invasive imaging of vulnerable plaque
22. Noninvasive coronary imaging with multislice spiral computed tomography
23. Myogenesis : an update in muscle regeneration
24. Circulatory assist devices
25. Groin closure devices
26. Stent retrieval
27. Percutaneuos atrial septal defect, patent foramen ovale closure and patent ductus arteriosus closure
28. Carotid and peripheral angiography and intervention
29. The importance of echocariography to the interventionalist
30. Percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty