Interventional Cardiology: Principles and Practice provides comprehensive guidance to best practices and optimal patient care.

The book emphasizes material selection and angiographic setup for the full range of procedures. Comprehensive chapters address how to approach complex coronary lesions, such as chronic total occlusions, bifurcations, and unprotected left main lesions.

An accompanying DVD presents 33 clinical cases to guide readers through the most common challenges.

Contents

Part I Principles and Techniques

1. Interventional Cardiology Training
2. Atherogenesis and Inflammation
3. The Essentials of Vascular Access and Closure
4. Optimal Angiographic Views for Coronary Angioplasty
5. Material Selection
6. Physiologic Assessment in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
7. Quantitative Coronary and Vascular Angiography

Part II Interventional Pharmacology

8. Oral Antiplatelet Agents in PCI
9. Heparin, LMWH, GIIb/IIIa, and Direct Thrombin Inhibitors

Part III Complementary Imaging Techniques

10. Intravascular Ultrasound: Principles, Image Interpretation, and Clinical Applications
11. Principles of Intra-coronary Optical Coherence Tomography
12. Multislice Computed Tomography of Coronary Arteries
13. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Part IV Indications in Acute and Chronic Syndromes

14. Stable Angina
15. Indications in Acute Coronary Syndromes Without ST Elevation
16. Primary and Rescue PCI in Acute Myocardial Infarction

Part V Approaching Complex Coronary Interventions

17. Chronic Total Coronary Occlusion
18. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Unprotected Left Main
19. Bifurcation Lesions
20. Approach to Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease

Part VI Interventional Techniques

21. Rotational Atherectomy
22. Thrombectomy and Embolic Protection
23. Carotid Artery Angioplasty and Stenting
24. Aortic Valve Disease Interventions
25. Transseptal Puncture
26. Alcohol Septal Ablation for Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy
27. Cell Therapy

Part VII Complications

28. No Reflow
29. The Management of Cardiogenic Shock
30. In-stent Restenosis in the DES Era
31. Renal Insufficiency and the Impact of Contrast Agents
32. Coronary Artery Dissections and Perforations

Part VIII Clinical Trials

33. Statistical Essentials in the Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials
34. Sirolimus and Paclitaxel Eluting Stent Clinical Studies
35. Zotarolimus Eluting Stent Clinical Studies
36. Everolimus Eluting Coronary Stents: Clinical Trials
37. Novel Drug Eluting Stent Systems
38. Illustrative Cases

Index

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