Cardiac Catheterization and Percutaneous Interventions

1. Who should not go to the cathlab?
2. Radiation safety in the catheterization laboratory
3. Current use of antiplatelet agents
4. Complications and how to deal with them
5. Vascular access
6. Basic coronary angiography: techniques, tools and troubleshooting
7. Right heart catheterization and hemodynamic profiles
8. Balloon angioplasty
9. Coronary stenting
10. Ablative techniques in coronary intervention
11. Primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction
12. The role of distal protection devices
13. Pathophysiology of restenosis
14. Pharmacological treatment of restenosis
15. Mechanical treatment of in-stent restenosis
16. Restenosis and brachytherapy
17. Drug-eluting stents
18. Intravascular ultrasound
19. Physiological assessment of coronary circulation using pressure and Doppler guidewires
20. Invasive imaging of vulnerable plaque
21. Noninvasive coronary imaging with multislice spiral computed tomography
22. Myogenesis: an update on muscle regeneration
23. Circulatory assist devices
24. Groin closure devices
25. Carotid and peripheral angiography and intervention
26. The importance of echocardiography to the interventionalist
27. Percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty

Training and experience are the foundation on which an accomplished interventionalist stands. No book can supplant this foundation, but in Cardiac Catheterization and Percutaneous Intervention the authors, most of whom trained at the Thoraxcentre, Rotterdam, provide a practical text that creates confidence in performing percutaneous coronary and peripheral intervention. They address the basics (things you wouldn't dare to ask), the pitfalls (problems to avoid before you start), the proven approaches (facts you are expected to know), and the new innovations (techniques you will want to be first to perfect).