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Practical Manual of Interventional Cardiology

  • This handbook offers a quick reference on everyday interventional procedures and provides reliable guidance on how to do complex procedures
  • Patient selection, indication and preoperative work up are discussed in an easily readable format
  • Along with procedural details, the authors describe the step-by-step technique and various troubleshooting and technical pearls based on extensive Mount Sinai experience

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Interventional Basics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Basics of Radiation Safety

      • Ravinder Singh Rao, Anitha Rajamanickam, Joseph Sweeny
      Pages 3-6
    3. Achieving Perfect Vascular Access

      • Anitha Rajamanickam, Robert Pyo
      Pages 7-21
    4. The Perfect Shot: Angiographic Views for the Interventionalist

      • Anitha Rajamanickam, Annapoorna Kini
      Pages 23-25
    5. Physiological Assessment During Interventional Procedures

      • Nagendra Boopathy Senguttuvan, Anitha Rajamanickam, Annapoorna Kini
      Pages 27-32
    6. Antiplatelet and Antithrombotic Therapy in PCI

      • Rikesh Patel, Anitha Rajamanickam, Annapoorna Kini
      Pages 33-37
    7. Patient Selection and Appropriateness

      • Anitha Rajamanickam, Samin K. Sharma
      Pages 39-43
    8. Guide Catheter Selection

      • Anitha Rajamanickam, Samin K. Sharma
      Pages 45-54
    9. Guidewire Properties and Selection

      • Christopher J. Varughese, Anitha Rajamanickam, Samin K. Sharma
      Pages 55-62
    10. Assessment of Lesion Severity (Intravascular Ultrasound, Optical Coherence Tomography, NIRS, and Beyond)

      • Sadik Raja Panwar, Anitha Rajamanickam, Annapoorna Kini
      Pages 63-74
    11. Basics of Intracoronary Devices

      • Ravinder Singh Rao, Anitha Rajamanickam, Annapoorna Kini
      Pages 75-90
    12. Hemodynamic Assessment of Aortic/Mitral Stenosis and Regurgitation

      • Rikesh Patel, Anitha Rajamanickam, Annapoorna Kini
      Pages 97-105
    13. Vascular Closure Devices and Complications

      • Faramarz (Taj) Tehrani, Anitha Rajamanickam, Robert Pyo
      Pages 107-121
  3. Coronary Intervention

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
    2. Basics of Intervention

      • Anitha Rajamanickam, Annapoorna Kini
      Pages 125-133
    3. Difficult Stent Delivery

      • Anitha Rajamanickam, Annapoorna Kini
      Pages 135-138
    4. Bifurcation Lesions

      • Sadik Raja Panwar, Anitha Rajamanickam, Annapoorna Kini
      Pages 139-159
    5. Ostial Lesion Interventions

      • Mayur Lakhani, Anitha Rajamanickam, Annapoorna Kini
      Pages 161-165

About this book

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.

Reviews

“This is a methodical and practical overview of interventional cardiology techniques and procedures. … The intended audience is interventional cardiology fellows in training. However, cardiologists in clinical practice and cardiac catheterization laboratory personnel would also benefit.” (Chad M. Dugas, Doody's Book Reviews, May, 2015)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA

    Annapoorna Kini, Samin Sharma, Jagat Narula

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Practical Manual of Interventional Cardiology

  • Editors: Annapoorna Kini, Samin Sharma, Jagat Narula

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6581-1

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-6581-1Published: 26 November 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 303

  • Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations, 144 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cardiology, Interventional Radiology

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