Chapter 17 Percutaneous Closure of Congenital, Acquired, and Postinfarction Ventricular Septal Defects Noa Holoshitz, Qi-Ling Cao and Ziyad M. Hijazi Ventricular septal defects (VSDs) are the most common congenital heart…
Chapter 6 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Edwards SAPIEN Valve Alan Zajarias and Alain Cribier Aortic stenosis (AS) remains the most common form of adult acquired valvular heart disease in developed…
Chapter 15 Percutaneous Approach to Pericardial Window Mitul Patel and Ehtisham Mahmud 15.1 Background The management of chronic pericardial effusions by cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons poses significant challenges and is…
Chapter 8 Percutaneous Pulmonary Valve Implantation Harsimran S. Singh, Lee N. Benson, Mark Osten and Eric Horlick As the twenty-first century progresses, a new chapter in cardiac therapeutics is being…
Chapter 18 Percutaneous Closure of Aortic, Coronary, and Ventricular Pseudoaneurysms and Coronary Fistulae Stefan C. Bertog, Jennifer Franke, Laura Vaskelyte, Ilona Hofmann and Horst Sievert Although many transcatheter closure techniques…
Chapter 3 Vascular Access for Structural Heart Disease James Stewart, Vasilis Babaliaros, Chethan Devireddy, Vinod Thourani and Sameer Gafoor Structural heart disease interventions require careful preprocedural planning. Imaging is the…
Chapter 1 The Growing Specialty of Adult Structural Heart Disease Ted E. Feldman The field of structural cardiac and cardiovascular intervention is relatively new. Some of the component procedures have…
5 Lower Extremities Common Femoral Artery Problems in the common femoral artery are treated primarily by surgery. The vessel courses superficially and is readily accessible. Surgery may be performed under…
6 Upper Extremities Stenosis or Occlusion of the Left Subclavian Artery There is only one intervention in the branches of the aortic arch (supra-aortic branches) that is largely free of…
7 Other Endovascular Interventions The methods presented here are either performed only in special facilities or they require extensive experience or a specific clinical environment. They are described briefly to…
