Main description:

This practical, pocket-sized handbook shows readers how to perform common therapeutic interventions. An easy-to-read outline format makes this complex subject easier to understand. An international team of specialists reviews traditional procedures as well as more specialised interventions, including laser angioplasty, atherectomy and stent implantation, discussing techniques, cautionary highpoints and outcomes. The 2nd Edition also offers coverage of peripheral vascular disease.

Contents:

1. The Basics of percutaneous coronary interventions
2. Arterial and Venous Access and Hemostasis for PCI
3. Angiography for PCI
4. Complications of PCI
5. Antithrombotic and Antiplatelet Therapy for Percutanous Coronary Interventions
6. Non-Balloon Coronary Interventional Techniques and Devices: Rotational Atherectomy, Thrombectomy, Cutting Balloons, and Embolic Protection Devices
7. Restenosis and Drug-Eluting Stents
8. Bifurcation Stenosis PCI
9. Difficult Subsets for PCI: Calcific vessels, coronary bypass conduits, elderly patients and cardiac transplantation
10. PCI OF Chronic total Occlusions (CTO)
11. Aorto-Ostial And Branch Ostial Lesions And Unprotected Left Main Pci
12. High-Risk Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
13. Non-angiographic Coronary Lesion Assessment: FFR, IVUS, OCT, NIRS
14. Peripheral Vascular Intervention
15. Carotid Artery Stenting
16. Percutaneous Mitral Commissurotomy and Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty
17. Transcatheter Valve Therapies
18. Pericardiocentesis
19. Septal ablation for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
20. Transcatheter Closure of Atrial Septal Defects and Patent Foramen Ovale
21. Interventions for Failing Hemodialysis Access