Tips and Tricks with Drug-Eluting Stents presents tips and tricks for dealing with diseased coronary arteries.
Whether discussing 'crushing and kissing' techniques or the stenting of tortuous vessels in the elderly, Tips and Tricks with Drug-Eluting Stents provides the reader with succinct and simple advice based on personal experience.
Tips and Tricks with Drug-Eluting Stents provides the most comprehensive and practical guide available for those involved in coronary artery stenting.
The images are all down-loadable in Powerpoint and will be of tremendous use to instructors and students alike.
Includes two CD-ROMs
Contents:
- Drug-eluting stent platforms
- Sirolimus-eluting stents : from clinical trials to real world
- Taxus tips & tricks
- General approach with drug-eluting stents
- Lesion-specific stenting
- Introduction : practical approaches to bifurcational lesions
- Lessons from the literature
- Case examples
- Didactic crushing cases
- Laboratory insights with different techniques of drug-eluting stent implantation in bifurcations
- New approaches to chronic total occlusions
- Approach to thrombus-containing lesions
- Surgical arena
- Left main stenting
- Multivessel treatment
- Special subsets
- Drug-eluting stents for in-stent restenosis
- Treatment of saphenous vein grafts and left internal mammary artery
- Special procedures
- Atherectomy and rotablation
- IVUS guidance
- Problems
- Drug-eluting stent complications
- Complications with drug-eluting stents : my worst nightmares
- Stent thrombosis after cypher and taxus stent implantation
- Drug-eluting stent failures
- A view from the USA
- Experience with drug-eluting stents
- Noninvasive evaluation
- Stress echo in percutaneous coronary interventions - should anything be changed in the drug-eluting stent era?
- Cost-effectiveness analysis
- Economic considerations of drug-eluting stents
Index
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