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(Table of content)
Current and future techniques in interventional cardiology and angiology.- Current and future techniques in interventional cardiology and angiology.- Additional aspects to balloon angioplasty.- Long wire technique for coronary angioplasty - the Frankfurt experience.- Advances in x-ray equipment - digital subtraction angiography with on-line quantification.- Myocardial release of lactate, hypoxanthine, and urate during and following percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Potential mechanism for the generation of free radicals.- Adenosine production during balloon-induced ischemia.- Can one predict reversibility of regional ventricular dysfunction?.- Current assessment of balloon valvuloplasty.- Quantitative and qualitative morphological changes during intraoperative balloon valvuloplasty.- What can we learn from classical operative techniques for valvular balloon dilatation?.- Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty of aortic stenosis in 110 consecutive patients.- Balloon aortic valvuloplasty in adults: report of 78 consecutive patients.- Experience with mitral valvuloplasty.- Assessment of left ventricular function during aortic balloon valvuloplasty by transesophageal echocardiography.- New techniques for revascularization.- Percutaneous transluminal atherectomy of the peripheral and coronary arteries.- Histological findings from "atherectomy" specimens.- Cell culture of human atheromatous plaque material.- Low-speed rotational angioplasty - clinical results in 53 patients with chronic occlusions.- Laser angioplasty: 1988.- Intraoperative coronary laser angioplasty - first clinical experiences with a new method.- Laser angioplasty of iliac and femoropopliteal obstructive lesions.- Radiofrequency coronary angioplasty in patients with coronary arterydisease - a new method for treatment of coronary artery stenoses.- Angioscopy in the evaluation of interventional cardiovascular procedures.- Progress in intravascular real-time cross-sectional ultrasonic imaging at the Thoraxcenter.- Current status of intracoronary stents.- Interventional techniques for arrhythmia control.- Cardiac tachyarrhythmias: alternatives to medical treatment.- Catheter ablation: the state of the art.- Preoperative and intraoperative mapping in patients with sustained ventricular tachycardia.- Surgical therapy of ventricular tachycardia.- Interventional cardiology today.
(Author portrait)
Prof. Dr. med. Erland Erdmann ist Direktor der Klinik III für Innere Medizin (Kardiologie, Angiologie, Pneumologie und Internistische Intensivmedizin) am Klinikum der Universität zu KölnTagungspräsident des Kardiologenkongresses 04/2003 -2007; mit dem Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse ausgezeichnet
Contents
Current and future techniques in interventional cardiology and angiology.- Current and future techniques in interventional cardiology and angiology.- Additional aspects to balloon angioplasty.- Long wire technique for coronary angioplasty — the Frankfurt experience.- Advances in x-ray equipment — digital subtraction angiography with on-line quantification.- Myocardial release of lactate, hypoxanthine, and urate during and following percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Potential mechanism for the generation of free radicals.- Adenosine production during balloon-induced ischemia.- Can one predict reversibility of regional ventricular dysfunction?.- Current assessment of balloon valvuloplasty.- Quantitative and qualitative morphological changes during intraoperative balloon valvuloplasty.- What can we learn from classical operative techniques for valvular balloon dilatation?.- Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty of aortic stenosis in 110 consecutive patients.- Balloon aortic valvuloplasty in adults: report of 78 consecutive patients.- Experience with mitral valvuloplasty.- Assessment of left ventricular function during aortic balloon valvuloplasty by transesophageal echocardiography.- New techniques for revascularization.- Percutaneous transluminal atherectomy of the peripheral and coronary arteries.- Histological findings from "atherectomy" specimens.- Cell culture of human atheromatous plaque material.- Low-speed rotational angioplasty — clinical results in 53 patients with chronic occlusions.- Laser angioplasty: 1988.- Intraoperative coronary laser angioplasty — first clinical experiences with a new method.- Laser angioplasty of iliac and femoropopliteal obstructive lesions.- Radiofrequency coronary angioplasty in patients with coronary arterydisease — a new method for treatment of coronary artery stenoses.- Angioscopy in the evaluation of interventional cardiovascular procedures.- Progress in intravascular real-time cross-sectional ultrasonic imaging at the Thoraxcenter.- Current status of intracoronary stents.- Interventional techniques for arrhythmia control.- Cardiac tachyarrhythmias: alternatives to medical treatment.- Catheter ablation: the state of the art.- Preoperative and intraoperative mapping in patients with sustained ventricular tachycardia.- Surgical therapy of ventricular tachycardia.- Interventional cardiology today.
