Oxford Textbook of Interventional Cardiology

Background and basics; 1: The epidemiology and pathophysiology of coronary artery disease; 2: The history of interventional cardiology; 3: Risk assessment and analysis of outcomes; 4: Vascular access: femoral versus radial; 5: Radiation and percutaneous coronary intervention; 6: The 'golden rules' of percutaneous coronary intervention; 7: Routine management after percutaneous coronary intervention; Percutaneous coronary intervention-related imaging; 8: Angiography: indications and limitations; 9: Coronary physiology in clinical practice; 10: The role of intravascular ultrasound in percutaneous coronary intervention; 11: Virtual histology intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography in percutaneous coronary intervention; 12: Coronary computed tomography for the interventionalist; 13: Cardiovascular magnetic resonance; Percutaneous coronary intervention by clinical syndrome; 14: Stable coronary artery disease: medical therapy versus percutaneous coronary intervention versus surgery; 15: Percutaneous coronary intervention in non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome; 16: Primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST elevation myocardial infarction; 17: Percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with impaired left ventricular function; Percutaneous coronary intervention by lesion and patient subsets; 18: Coronary bifurcation stenting: state of the art; 19: Percutaneous coronary intervention for unprotected and protected left main stem disease; 20: Chronic total occlusions; 21: Revascularization in diabetes mellitus; Adjunctive therapies in percutaneous coronary intervention; 22: Current status of oral antiplatelet therapies; 23: Current status of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors; 24: The contemporary use of antiplatelet therapy in interventional cardiology; 25: The role of bivalirudin in percutaneous coronary intervention; 26: Optimal medical therapy in percutaneous coronary intervention patients: statins and ACE inhibitors as disease-modifying

Nick Curzen is a consultant cardiologist with a special interest in coronary intervention at Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Southampton University Medical School. He qualified from Southampton with Honours in 1987 and obtained MRCP in 1990. In 1996 he was awarded his PhD from Imperial College, London, for a thesis involving vascular pharmacology and molecular biology. His clinical training was at Southampton University, Royal Bournemouth, Royal Brompton, London Chest and St Bartholomews hospitals. He became a consultant interventional cardiologist at Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1999 and moved to Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, Southampton in January 2004.