Bookedited by Annapoorna Kini, Samin Sharma, Jagat Narula.
Summary: This practical handbook is based on an internal working manual developed by staff and fellows at Mount Sinai Heart Cardiovascular Catheterization Laboratory, renowned for its high-volume and low complication complex coronary procedures. The Practical Handbook of Interventional Cardiology captures the knowledge and methodological know-how from leaders in interventional cardiology, it intends to guide users in a stepwise, methodical and practical approach through various cardiac interventional procedures in order to achieve maximum patient safety and improved outcomes. From patient selection, preoperative work-up, setting up equipment to step-by-step illustrations of various procedural details and troubleshooting, this handbook captures all the details necessary to perform the simplest to the most complex cardiac interventions. The book is designed for cardiologists and trainees who desire an efficient way to review the steps of various cardiac interventional procedures and a quick, reliable reference for everyday use.
Contents:
Part I: Interventional Basics
Basics of Radiation Safety
Achieving Perfect Vascular Access
The Perfect Shot: Angiographic Views for the Interventionalist
Physiological assessment during interventional procedures
Antiplatelet and Antithrombotic therapy in PCI
Patient Selection and Appropriateness
Guiding Catheter Selection
Guidewire Properties and Selection
Assessment of Lesion Severity (Intravascular Ultrasound, Optical Coherence Tomography, NIRS and Beyond)
Basics of Intracoronary Devices
Hemodynamic assessment: Right Heart Catheterization, Pulmonary Hypertension, Left-To-Right Shunt, And Constriction
Hemodynamic Assessment of Aortic/Mitral Stenosis And Regurgitation
Vascular Closure Devices and Complications
Part 2: Coronary Intervention
Basics of Intervention
Difficult Stent Delivery
Bifurcation Lesions
Ostial Lesion Interventions
Left Main Coronary Interventions
Chronic Total Occlusions
ACS: STEMI/ Non-STEMI Intervention
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Interventions
Calcific Lesion Interventions
Coronary Complications Of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
Radial Coronary Interventions
Part 3: Special Procedures
Advanced Hemodynamic Support
Aortic Valve Interventions-Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty/ Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty
Alcohol Septal Ablation
Pericardiocentesis and Balloon Pericardiotomy
Contrast-Induced Nephropathy Post Percutaneous Interventional Procedures.