Kay I. Patrick, Sabaté Manel, Costa Marco A. (eds.) Cardiac Catheterization and Percutaneous Interventions

Taylor &​ Francis, 2004. — 465 p. — ISBN: 978-1841842301Training and experience are the foundation on which an accomplished interventionalist stands. No book can supplant this foundation, but in Cardiac Catheterization and Percutaneous Intervention the authors, most of whom trained at the Thoraxcentre, Rotterdam, provide a practical text that creates confidence in performing percutaneous coronary and peripheral intervention. They address the basics (things you wouldn't dare to ask), the pitfalls (problems to avoid before you start), the proven approaches (facts you are expected to know), and the new innovations (techniques you will want to be first to perfect).Who should not go to the cathlab?
Radiation safety in the catheterization laboratory
Current use of antiplatelet agents
Complications and how to deal with them
Vascular access
Basic coronary angiography: techniques, tools and troubleshooting
Right heart catheterization and hemodynamic profiles
Balloon angioplasty
Coronary stenting
Ablative techniques in coronary intervention
Treatment of complex angioplasty subsets
Primary angioplasty for acute myocardia infarction
The role of distal protection devices
Pathophysiology treatment of restenosis
Pharmacological treatment of restenosis
Mechanical treatment of in-stent restenosis
Restenosis and brachytherapy
Drug-eluting stents
Intravascular ultrasound
Physiological assessment of coronary circulation using pressure and Doppler guidewires
Invasive imaging of vulnerable plaque
Noninvasive coronary imaging with multislice spiral computed tomography
Myogenesis: an update in muscle regeneration
Circulatory assist devices
Groin closure devices
Stent retrieval
Percutaneuos atrial septal defect, patent foramen ovale closure and patent ductus arteriosus closure
Carotid and peripheral angiography and intervention
The importance of echocariography to the interventionalist
Percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty