Full Description
This handbook is a practical guide for interventional cardiology procedures, providing a fast-access reference tool to be consulted in daily practice in the cath lab. Interventional cardiology has become a complex speciality, and this book's 'procedure-oriented' structure will help readers to deploy diagnostic and management strategies and familiarize themselves with procedures and tools. Written by experts in their fields with passion for their daily work, this must-have handbook is an invaluable resource for practicing clinicians, fellows and professionals in every cath lab to understand and perform these complex procedures for safety and efficacy.
Contents
1. Percutaneous arterial and venous access and closure
2. Right Heart Catheterization: A Practical Guide for Assessing Cardiac Disorders
3. Coronary Angiography
4. Myocardial flow evaluation
5. Application of Coronary Physiology for Assessment of Epicardial Coronary Flow-Limiting Stenoses
6. Introduction to intracoronary imaging techniques
7. Treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions
8. Left main treatment
9. Cardiogenic Shock and Complex High-Risk Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
10. Calcified Coronary Lesions
11. Coronary chronic total occlusions
12. Alcohol septal ablation
13. CT-guided PCI
14. Transeptal puncture technique
15. Computed tomography analysis for transcatheter aortic valve implantation
16. Streamlined transfemoral TAVI
17. PCI in TAVI
18. Edge-to-Edge Mitral Repair for Severe Mitral Regurgitation
19. Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion
20. Angiography-guided closure of PFO and type 2 ASD
21. Intravascular foreign body retrieval
22. Endomyocardial biopsy
