Practical angioplasty /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Faxon, D. (David)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Raven Press, [1994]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Background and patient selection
  • Introduction and historical background / David P. Faxon
  • Mechanisms of angioplasty and pathophysiology of restenosis / David P. Faxon
  • Patient selection: current status / Thomas J. Ryan
  • Patient preparation and periprocedural management / Gary R. Garber
  • Technical considerations
  • Vascular approaches / Nicholas A. Ruocco
  • Selection of guiding catheters / Alice K. Jacobs
  • Selection of balloon catheters and guidewires / David P. Faxon
  • Dilation strategies in patients with multivessel disease / Peter B. Berger and David R. Holmes, Jr.
  • Coronary angioplasty of bifurcation lesions / Geoffrey O. Hartzler
  • Total occlusion / Bernhard Meier
  • Interventional approaches in the postbypass patient / John S. Douglas, Jr.
  • Coronary angioplasty strategies for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction / Joseph M. Sutton and Eric J. Topol
  • Assessment of early and late success after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty / Walter R.M. Hermans ... [et al.].
  • (cont) Management of patients following successful coronary angioplasty / Jesse W. Currier and Mark L. Leitschuh
  • New technology
  • Coronary atherectomy / Robert F. Fishman and Donald S. Baim
  • Excimer laser coronary angioplasty / Bradley H. Evans, Neal Eigler and Frank Litvack
  • Intracoronary ultrasound / Andrew P. Chodos and John E. Brush, Jr.
  • Management of adverse events
  • Percutaneous support techniques / Seth D. Bilazarian and Alice K. Jacobs
  • Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and the cardiac surgeon / Richard J. Shemin
  • Clinical features of restenosis following coronary angioplasty / John E. Brush, Jr.