The Interventional Cardiac Catheterization Handbook

i. INTRODUCTION TO INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY Spencer B. King, III and Morton J. Kern 1 BASIC CORONARY BALLOON ANGIOPLASTY AND STENTING Morton Kern 2 ARTERIAL ACCESS AND HEMOSTASIS FOR INTERVNETIOANL PROCEDURES M. Rinder, M. Kern 3 ANGIOGRAPHY FOR INTERVNETIONAL PROCEDURES M. Kern, S. Khoukaz, S. Herrmann 4 COMPLICATIONS OF PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTIONS Glenn Levine, M. Kern 5 ANTITHROMBOTIC THERAPY Glenn Levine 6 NON BALLOON ANGIOPLASTY DEVICES Frank V. Aguirre 7 ESTENOSIS, BRACHYTHERAPY AND DRUG ELUTING STENTS Souheil Khoukaz, M. Kern 8 DIFFICULT ANGIOPLASTY SITUATIONS M. Rinder, M. Kern 9 HIGH-RISK ANGIOPLASTY Oscar Agiular, Glenn Levine 10 NON-ANGIOGRAPHIC LESSION ASSESSMENT: INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND CORONARY PHYSIOLOGY William Fearon, M. Kern 11 PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE Chris White 12 MITRAL AND AORTIC BALLOON VALULOPLASTY Ted Feldman 13 PERICARDIOCENTESIS Ted Feldman 14 TRANSLUMINAL ALCHOL SEPTAL ABLATION FOR HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY Carey Kimmelstein 15 ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECT AND PATENT FORAMEN OVALE CLOSURE Z. Hijazi 16 INTERVENTIONS FOR FAILING HEMODIALYSIS VASCULAR ACCESS Steven J Bander, Suresh Margassery, Keven J. Martin 17 CEREBROVASCULAR INTERVENTIONS Camillo Gomez