The interventional cardiac catheterization handbook /

The newly updated Interventional Cardiac Catheterization Handbook helps you to effectively perform common therapeutic interventions. This convenient, pocket-sized handbook provides full-color illustrations and videos showcasing up-to-date, step-by-step methods for the most widely practiced intervent...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Kern, Morton J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, PA : Saunders/Elsevier, 2013.
Edition:3rd ed.
Series:ClinicalKey.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The basics of percutaneous coronary interventions
  • Arterial and venous access and hemostasis for PCI
  • Angiography for PCI
  • Complications of PCI
  • Antithrombotic and antiplatelet therapy for percutanous coronary interventions
  • Non-balloon coronary interventional techniques and devices : rotational atherectomy, thrombectomy, cutting balloons, and embolic protection devices
  • Restenosis and drug-eluting stents
  • Bifurcation stenosis PCI
  • Difficult subsets for PCI : calcific vessels, coronary bypass conduits, elderly patients and cardiac transplantation
  • PCI of chronic total occlusions (CTO)
  • Aorto-ostial and branch ostial lesions and unprotected left main PCI
  • High-risk percutaneous coronary interventions
  • Non-angiographic coronary lesion assessment : FFR, IVUS, OCT, NIRS
  • Peripheral vascular intervention
  • Carotid artery stenting
  • Percutaneous mitral commissurotomy and balloon aortic valvuloplasty
  • Transcatheter valve therapies
  • Pericardiocentesis
  • Septal ablation for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  • Transcatheter closure of atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale
  • Interventions for failing hemodialysis access.