Interventions for Cardiac Arrhythmias Haris M. Haqqani Francis E. Marchlinski INTRODUCTION In the three decades since the first report of a catheter-based ablation procedure for medically refractory arrhythmias by Scheinman…
Pericardial Interventions: Pericardiocentesis, Balloon Pericardiotomy, and Epicardial Approach to Cardiac Procedures Mauro Moscucci Juan F. Viles-Gonzalez The pericardium consists of both a visceral and a parietal component, each composed of…
Aortic Endovascular Grafting Arash Bornak Gilbert R. Upchurch JR Omaida C. Velazquez Endovascular Aortic/Aneurysm Repair (EVAR) and, in particular endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair has rapidly progressed over the last…
Cardiac Cell-Based Therapy: Methods of Application and Delivery Systems Joshua M. Hare Arnon Blum Alan W. Heldman The promise of cell therapy as a strategy to regenerate or repair myocardial…
Intervention for Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Robert J. Sommer The catheter-based treatment of congenital heart disease has been the traditional domain of pediatric interventional cardiologists. But the successes…
Peripheral Intervention Mehdi H. Shishehbor Samir R. Kapadia Management of patients with carotid, renal, or peripheral arterial disease is complex. It requires not only excellent technical skills but also a…
Percutaneous Therapies for Valvular Heart Disease Ted Feldman Mauro Moscucci Some of the material in this chapter was contributed by Thomas Ports and William Grossman, MD, in previous editions. Although…
General Overview of Interventions for Structural Heart Disease Mauro Moscucci John D. Carroll John G. Webb As Cournand stated in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1956 for his work…
Coronary Stenting Ajay J. Kirtane Gregg W. Stone Stents are metallic scaffolds that are deployed within diseased segments of coronary arteries to establish and maintain wide luminal patency. Currently, stent-assisted…
Atherectomy, Thrombectomy, and Distal Protection Devices Robert N. Piana Jeffrey J. Popma Campbell Rogers and Donald S. Baim authored this chapter in previous editions. Coronary stenting with or without adjunctive…
