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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.
List 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
Summary
Shows readers how to perform common therapeutic interventions. This title reviews traditional procedures as well as more specialised interventions, including laser angioplasty, atherectomy and stent implantation, discussing techniques, cautionary highpoints and outcomes.
