Title: Strategic approaches in coronary intervention /
Authors: Ellis, Stephen G. 1951-; Holmes, David R., 1945-
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Coronary heart disease Treatment; Endarterectomy; Coronary heart disease Surgery Complications.; Coronary Disease therapy
Contents: Techniques of coronary revascularization and imaging -- Balloon angioplasty and provisional stenting -- Rotational atherectomy: when and how -- Stents -- Intravascular ultrasound: practical use in the cardiac catheterization laboratory -- Developing or niche techniques -- Clinical problems -- Evaluating stenosis severity: quantitative angiography, coronary flow reserve, and intravascular ultrasound -- Management of the calcified lesion -- Long lesion -- Management of angulated lesions -- Bifurcation lesion -- Lesion with thrombus -- Percutaneous therapy of ostial coronary disease -- Simple de novo lesion -- Restenotic lesion -- Chronic occlusion -- Vein graft lesions -- Interventional therapy of small vessels -- Complete versus incomplete revascularization -- Patient with very poor left ventricular function -- Proximal left anterior descending disease -- Overview of treatment selection for multivessel disease -- Coronary stent retrieval: devices and techniques -- Management of vascular sheath following PTCA -- Primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction: the Zwolle approach to reperfusion -- Internal mammary artery stenosis -- Transradial approach for coronary angioplasty and stenting -- Treatment of closure and threatened closure -- Coronary arterial perforation: prediction, diagnosis, management, and prevention -- Treatment of unprotected left main stenoses -- Diabetes and coronary heart disease -- Adjunctive therapies -- Heparin: how much in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention -- Adjunctive therapy: ADP antagonists -- Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa antagonists -- Local drug delivery: current clinical applications -- Related issues -- Quality management in the cardiac catheterization laboratory -- Summary and future directions.