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Written by experts in their fields with passion for their daily work, this must-have handbook is an invaluable resource for practising clinicians, fellows, and professionals, providing a fast-access reference tool to be consulted in daily practice in the cath lab to understand and perform complex procedures with safety and efficacy.
List of contents
1. Percutaneous arterial and venous access and closure
2. Right Heart Catheterization: A Practical Guide for Assessing Cardiac Disorders
3. Coronary Angiography
4. Myocardial flow evaluation
5. Application of Coronary Physiology for Assessment of Epicardial Coronary Flow-Limiting Stenoses
6. Introduction to intracoronary imaging techniques
7. Treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions
8. Left main treatment
9. Cardiogenic Shock and Complex High-Risk Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
10. Calcified Coronary Lesions
11. Coronary chronic total occlusions
12. Alcohol septal ablation
13. CT-guided PCI
14. Transeptal puncture technique
15. Computed tomography analysis for transcatheter aortic valve implantation
16. Streamlined transfemoral TAVI
17. PCI in TAVI
18. Edge-to-Edge Mitral Repair for Severe Mitral Regurgitation
19. Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion
20. Angiography-guided closure of PFO and type 2 ASD
21. Intravascular foreign body retrieval
22. Endomyocardial biopsy
About the author
Salvatore Brugaletta, MD, PhD https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5845-1435
is a Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist with vast experience in coronary and structural heart disease (intracoronary imaging and physiology, complex heart disease, left main, bifurcation, STEMI, cardiogenic shock, TAVI, LAA, etc). Highly skilled in Clinical Research, Medical Education and Medical Devices with strong commitment inside medical communities. Two PhDs focused on interventional cardiology from Erasmus University (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) and Sacred Heart Catholic University (Rome, Italy). He has authored around 400 manuscripts published in peer-reviewed journals. Clinically, his interests include: preventive cardiology, acute coronary syndrome / angina, drug eluting metallic and bioresorbable stents, invasive coronary imaging and TAVI (Transcatheter aortic valve implantation). Dr. Salvatore Brugaletta is an Interventional Cardiologist at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Spain.
Manel Sabaté, MD, PhD>20 book chapters and is the editor of 5 books. He is included in the World's Top 2% Scientists 2021 and 2022 published by Standford University. He is also included in the list of the 2024 edition of Research.com ranking of the best researchers in the arena of Medicine with a position of 15588 in the world. He is member of the editorial Board of several journals in the specialty and has been the recipient (as a Principal Investigator or Collaborator) in several competitive grants.
