General Overview of Interventions for Structural Heart Disease
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
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
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…
Percutaneous Balloon Angioplasty and General Coronary Intervention
Percutaneous Balloon Angioplasty and General Coronary Intervention Abhiram Prasad David R. Holmes Dotter and Judkins1 were the first to propose the concept of transluminal angioplasty—enlargement of the lumen of a…
Intervention for Acute Myocardial Infarction
Intervention for Acute Myocardial Infarction William W. O’Neill The author is a consultant to Medtronic, Inc. Serves on the board of Neovasc, Inc. and has received ongoing research support from…
Evaluation of Myocardial and Coronary Blood Flow and Metabolism
Evaluation of Myocardial and Coronary Blood Flow and Metabolism Morton J. Kern Michael J. Lim Fundamental concepts of coronary physiology and myocardial blood flow, once the subject of research studies,…
Endomyocardial Biopsy
Endomyocardial Biopsy Sandra V. Chaparro Mauro Moscuccia aKenneth Baughman and Donald Baim co-authored this chapter in the previous edition and contributed a significant portion of the material. Disorders of the…
Percutaneous Circulatory Support: Intra-Aortic Balloon Counterpulsation, Impella, TandemHeart, and Extracorporeal Bypass
Percutaneous Circulatory Support: Intra-Aortic Balloon Counterpulsation, Impella, TandemHeart, and Extracorporeal Bypass Daniel Burkhoff Mauro Moscucci Jose P.S. Henriques There are many clinical scenarios in which patients require acute circulatory support….
Adjunctive Pharmacology for Cardiac Catheterization
Adjunctive Pharmacology for Cardiac Catheterization Kevin Croce Daniel I. Simon An important part of interventional catheterization involves mastery of a broad range of drugs that includes anticoagulant, antiplatelet, vasoactive, sedative,…
Intravascular Imaging Techniques
Intravascular Imaging Techniques Yasuhiro Honda Peter J. Fitzgerald Paul G. Yock Angiography remains the clinical standard for coronary and peripheral vascular imaging to identify significant arterial narrowing and to guide…
