The interventional cardiac catheterization handbook
By: Morton J. Kern
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Saunders/Elsevier
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780323080576
Subjects: Heart Catheterization; Methods; Handbooks
Description: The newly updated Interventional Cardiac Catheterization Handbook helps you to effectively perform common therapeutic interventions. This convenient, pocket-sized handbook provides full-color illustrations and videos showcasing up-to-date, step-by-step methods for the most widely practiced interventional cardiology procedures! Review traditional procedures as well as more specialized interventions, including laser angioplasty, atherectomy, and stent implantation.Quickly access the information you need with the help of an easy-to-read outline format, which includes helpful tables and boldfaced key terms.An excellent complement to the 5th Edition of Kern's Cardiac Catheterization Handbook, the Interventional Cardiac Catheterization Handbook is also an ideal review tool for the boards.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The basics of percutaneous coronary interventions; title: Arterial and venous access and hemostasis for PCI; title: Angiography for PCI; title: Complications of PCI; title: Antithrombotic and antiplatelet therapy for percutanous coronary interventions; title: Non-balloon coronary interventional techniques and devices : rotational atherectomy, thrombectomy, cutting balloons, and embolic protection devices; title: Restenosis and drug-eluting stents; title: Bifurcation stenosis PCI; title: Difficult subsets for PCI : calcific vessels, coronary bypass conduits, elderly patients and cardiac transplantation; title: PCI of chronic total occlusions (CTO); title: Aorto-ostial and branch ostial lesions and unprotected left main PCI; title: High-risk percutaneous coronary interventions; title: Non-angiographic coronary lesion assessment : FFR, IVUS, OCT, NIRS; title: Peripheral vascular intervention; title: Carotid artery stenting; title: Percutaneous mitral commissurotomy and balloon aortic valvuloplasty; title: Transcatheter valve therapies; title: Pericardiocentesis; title: Septal ablation for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; title: Transcatheter closure of atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale; title: Interventions for failing hemodialysis access.