Practical Interventional Cardiology 2/e

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1. Coronary Artery Pathology in Angina and Acute Myocardial
Infarction
2. Coronary Angiography for the Interventional Cardiologist
3. Radiation Protection, Imaging Archiving and Communication Systems
4. PTCA: History, Techniques, Indications and Complications
5. PTCA of Single or Multivessel Disease and Chronic Total Occlusions
6. Cutting Balloon Angioplasty
7. Directional Coronary Atherectomy
8. Rotational Coronary Atherectomy
9. Excimer Laser Coronary Angioplasty
10. Transluminal Extraction Coronary Atherectomy
11. Intracoronary Stents I and II
12. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Unstable Angina and Non-Q-
wave Myocardial Infarction
13. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Myocardial Infarction
14. Adjunctive Pharmacotherapy and Coronary Intervention
15. Thrombectomy and Mechanical Thromolysis
16. Intervention After Acute Myocardial Infarction
17. Overview of Randomized Trials of Percutaneous Coronary
Intervention: Comparison of Medical and Surgical Therapy
18. Restenosis: the Problem and How to Deal with it
19. Management of Restenosis Through Radiation Therapy
20. Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging: Assessment of Coronary Lesions,
Percutaneous Interventions and Brachytherapy
21. Physiological Measurements of Coronary Blood Flow
22. Transmyocardial and Percutaneous Laser Revascularization and
Angiogenesis
23. Coronary Intervention and the Cardiac Surgeon
24. The Cardiologist and Peripheral Intervention
25. Transcatheter Closure or Ventricular Septal Defect Post-
myocardial Infarction
26. Non-surgical Septal Reduction in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
27. Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy
28. Interventional Cardiac Catheterization in Adults with Congenital
Heart Disease
29. Ablation of Arrhythmias
30. Percutaneous Removal of Retained Intracardiac Foreign Bodies
31. Femoral Artery Closure Devices
32. The Principles and Practice of Audit in Coronary Intervention
33. Training Programs and Certification in Interventional Cardiology
in European
34. Training in Interventional Cardiology in the United States:
Program Accreditation and Physician Certification
35. What's on the Horizon?