Bookby Xiangbin Pan, Ziyad M. Hijazi, Horst Sievert.
Summary: This book provides an extensive discussion of echocardiography-guided percutaneous interventional techniques for clinical practitioners, including cardiologists, interventional physicians, surgeons and specialist training candidates. It allows readers to gain a thorough understanding of interpreting echocardiography-guided procedures, which not only protect patients from pain and other complications associated with conventional surgery, but also obviate the use of fluoroscopy or contrast agents and so avoid radiation damage and the risks of allergy or renal function impairment. Further, these procedures could help to save patients in areas lacking medical resources. The book first demonstrates the substitution of transesophageal for transthoracic echocardiography to avoid intubation under general anesthesia, and then presents key technical and practical aspects of echo-guided percutaneous interventions for structural heart diseases, such as ASD, VSD, PDA, PS, MS, AS and CoA. Lastly, it explores the lessons learned in echocardiography, anesthesia and postprocedural management of echo-guided percutaneous interventions.
Contents:
Introduction
Anesthesia Management in Echocardiography-guided Percutaneous Interventions for Structural Heart Disease
Use of Echocardiography in Percutaneous Interventions for Structural Heart Disease
Echocardiography-guided Interventional Atrial Septal Defect Closure
Echocardiography-guided Interventional for Pulmonary Stenosis
Echocardiography-guided Interventional Patent Ductus Arteriosus Closure
Echocardiography-guided Interventional Closure of Perimembranous Ventricular Septal Defect
Echocardiography-guided Interventional Left Atrial Appendage Closure
Echocardiography-guided Percutaneous Interventional for Mitral Valve Stenosis
Echocardiography-guided Percutaneous Interventional for Aortic Valve Stenosis
Echocardiography-guided Percutaneous Interventional for Coarctation of Aorta
Post-procedural Management of Echocardiography-guided Percutaneous Interventions.