CARDIOLOGY

Percutaneous Valvular Intervention

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Percutaneous Valvular Intervention Gurion Lantz Firas Zahr INTRODUCTION Over the last decade, the treatment of valvular heart disease has progressed with the introduction and maturation of transcatheter valvular interventions. Since…

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Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

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Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Olabisi Akanbi David Lee HISTORY OF PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION Dotter performed the first angioplasty using sequential catheter dilation of a femoral arterial stenosis in 1964, and with…

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Intracoronary Imaging

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Intracoronary Imaging Catalin Toma Jeff Fowler INTRODUCTION Cardiac imaging technologies that involve instrumentation of the heart can provide intravascular imaging dedicated to the coronary architecture or assessment of chamber and…

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Cardiac Catheterization and Hemodynamic Assessment

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Cardiac Catheterization and Hemodynamic Assessment Punag Divanji Joseph Yang INTRODUCTION Since the late 1960s, the use of the Swan-Ganz balloon-tipped catheter for the measurement of intracardiac hemodynamics has been a…

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Hybrid and Multimodality Imaging

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Hybrid and Multimodality Imaging Albert J. Sinusas INTRODUCTION Multimodality imaging is routinely used to facilitate the diagnosis and evaluation of cardiovascular diseases, along with risk stratification, and directing and monitoring…

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Periprocedural Imaging

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Periprocedural Imaging Federico Asch INTRODUCTION Historically, structural heart disease has been a field limited to surgical interventions, with periprocedural imaging providing the initial diagnosis and indication for intervention (eg, to…

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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Louis-Philippe David Panagiotis Antiochos Raymond Y. Kwong INTRODUCTION Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) is a noninvasive, nonionizing imaging modality, with high spatial resolution, that is considered…

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Cardiac Computed Tomography

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Cardiac Computed Tomography Ron Blankstein Vasvi Singh INTRODUCTION Cardiac computed tomography (CCT) has evolved considerably over the past 15 years and now serves an essential role in the practice of…

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Echocardiography

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Echocardiography Edwin Ho Cynthia Taub INTRODUCTION Echocardiography is an imaging modality that utilizes ultrasound to visualize cardiac structure and function. It is the most commonly used imaging technique in cardiology…

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