Chapter 23 Percutaneous Relief of Vascular Obstruction Potpourri Dhaval Parekh and Frank Ing 23.1 Key Points 1. Cardiovascular obstructions in adult congenital heart disease (CHD) often involve branch pulmonary artery stenosis…
Chapter 9 Percutaneous Balloon Valvuloplasty for Patients with Rheumatic Mitral and Tricuspid Stenosis Ronan Margey, Sammy Elmariah and Igor F. Palacios Before 1982, cardiac surgery was the conventional form of…
Chapter 21 Atrial Septal Defect Creation Jeffery Meadows and Phillip Moore Pulmonary hypertension (HTN) with end-stage pulmonary vascular disease results in right heart failure, low output, and death, with few…
Chapter 12 Percutaneous Repair of Paravalvular Leaks Amar Krishnaswamy, E. Murat Tuzcu and Samir R. Kapadia Paravalvular leak (PVL) complicating mechanical or bioprosthetic surgical valve replacement is an uncommon but…
Chapter 11 The MitraClip Device and Procedural Overview D. Scott Lim 11.1 Key Points • Percutaneous transcatheter therapies for mitral regurgitation (MR) have found a role for patients at high operative…
Chapter 5 Aortic and Pulmonic Balloon Valvuloplasty Wesley R. Pedersen, Irvin F. Goldenberg, Itsik Ben-Dor and Ted E. Feldman 5.1 Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty Balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) for severe aortic…
Chapter 13 Valve-in-Valve Therapy Ronald K. Binder and John G. Webb 13.1 Key Points • Transcatheter valve implantation is feasible in failing surgical aortic, mitral, pulmonic and tricuspid bioprostheses. • Access may…
Chapter 14 Alcohol Septal Ablation for Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Richard G. Bach, Gagan D. Singh and Jeffrey A. Southard 14.1 Key Points • In appropriate patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), alcohol…
Chapter 19 Percutaneous Treatment of Pulmonary Vein Stenosis Oluseun Alli and David Holmes, JR Atrial fibrillation (AF) remains the most common arrhythmia encountered in clinical practice; it is estimated that…
Chapter 10 Percutaneous Approaches for Treating Mitral Regurgitation Jason H. Rogers, Ehrin J. Armstrong and Steven F. Bolling Percutaneous treatment of mitral regurgitation (MR) remains one of the most important…
