Cardiovascular Interventions in Clinical Practice

Until the publication of this exciting volume, new treatment modalities in the rapidly growing field of interventional cardiology were described based on individual research findings. Now, a multidisciplinary team of international experts puts catheter-based treatment techniques in context by exploring the pathobiology of specific diseases alongside a discussion of imaging tools and functional tests, and a comparison to alternative treatment approaches provided by cardiovascular surgery. This comprehensive overview of interventional cardiology represents a landmark in the field. Jürgen Haase , MD , PhD, Professor of Medicine, Senior Consultant Cardiologist, Red Cross Hospital Cardiology Center, Frankfurt/Main, Germany - Hans-Joachim Schäfers, MD, Professor of Surgery, Chairman Surgical Center, University Hospitals of Saarland, Director Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospitals of Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany - Horst Sievert, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director Cardiovascular Center Frankfurt, Sankt Katharinen, Director Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, Sankt Katharinen Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany - Ron Waksman, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director Experimental Cardiology and Co-Director, Department of Cardiology, Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC, USA CONTENTS Section 1 Septal defects and Valvular Heart Disease, 000 Part A Atrial and Ventricular Septal defects, 000 1 Pathology of atrial and ventricular septal defects, 000 Siew Yen Ho 2 Echocardiography of atrial and ventricular septal defects, 000 Natesa Pandian 3 MRi of atrial and ventricular septal defects, 000 Philipp Beerbaum 4 Catheter closure of atrial and ventricular septal defects, 000 Michael de Moor 5 Catheter closure of patent foramen ovale, 000 Nina Wunderlich 6 Surgical closure of atrial and ventricular septal defects, 000 Markus Heinemann PARt B Aortic Stenosis, 000 7 Pathology of aortic stenosis, 000 Nikolaus Gassier and Philipp Schnabel 8 Echocardiography of aortic stenosis, 000 Susan E. Wiegers and Michael J. Kostal 9 MRi of aortic stenosis, 000 Daniel Thomas and Torsten Sommer 10 Surgical replacement of the aortic valve, 000 Anton Moritz and Mirko Doss 11 Percutaneous implantation of aortic valve protheses, 000 John Webb and Robert Boone PARt C Aortic Insufficiency, 000 12 Pathology of aortic insufficiency, 000 Philipp Schnabel 13 Echocardiography of aortic insufficiency, 000 Susan E Wiegers and Martin G Keane 14 MRi of aortic insufficiency, 000 Joachim Lotz 15 Surgical reconstruction of the aortic valve, 000 Hans-Joachim Schäfer PARt d Mitral Stenosis, 000 16 Pathology of mitral stenosis, 000 Philipp Schnabel 17 Echocardiography of mitral stenosis, 000 Wolfgang Fehske 18 MRi of mitral stenosis, 000 Matthias Gutberlet 19 Catheter-based mitral valvuloplasty, 000 Prafuller Kerkar and Milind S Phadke 20 Surgical management of mitral stenosis, 000 Hartzell V. Schaff PARt e Mitral Insufficiency, 000 21 Pathology of mitral insufficiency, 000 Philipp Schnabel 22 Echocardiography of mitral insufficiency, 000 Josè L Zamorano, Pedro Marcos-Alberca and JL Gutiérrez-Chico 23 MRi of mitral insufficiency, 000 Matthias Gutberlet 24 Surgical correction of mitral insufficiency, 000 Kevin Greason and Hartzell V. Schaff 25 Percutaneous mitral valve reconstruction, 000             Frederick St Goar   SeCtIon 2 Coronary Heart disease, 000 26 Pathology of Coronary Heart disease, 000 Bradley Strauss 27 Multislice Ct for detection of CAd, 000 Dieter Ropers 28 invasive coronary arteriography for assessment of Coronary Artery disease, 000 Jürgen Haase 29 Stress echocardiography for functional assessment of CAd, 000 Uwe Nixdorff 30 Cardiac Magnetic Resonance imaging for functional assessment of Coronary Heart disease, 000 Jörg Schwitter PARt A Invasive Assessment of the Unstable Coronary Lesion, 000 31 Greyscale intravascular ultrasound and virtual histology of the unstable coronary lesion, 000 Hector Garcia 32 Optical coherence tomography of the unstable coronary lesion, 000 Ron Waksman and Tina L Pinto Slottow 33 thermography of the unstable coronary lesion, 000 Kostas Toutouzas PARt B Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, 000 34 Coronary stent technology, 000 Neville Kukreja 35 Adjunctive techniques for PCi, 000 Richard Heuse and Ramil Goel 36 PCi for acute myocardial infarction, 000 Jürgen Haase 37 PCi for complex coronary lesions (left main stem, ostial and bifurcation lesions), 000 Carlo Di Mario, Savio D'Souza, Peter Barlis and Giuseppe Ferrante 38 PCi in multivessel disease, 000 Yoshi Onuma, Neville Kukreja and Patrick W Serruys 39 PCi for chronic total occlusions, 000 Osamu Katoh 40 PCi for saphenous vein grafts, 000 Paul Versmeersch and Pierfrancesco Agostoni 41 Adjunctive pharmacotherapy for PCi, 000 Ron Waksman 42 Magnetic catheter navigation for PCi, 000 Steve Ramcharitur and Patrick W. Serruys vi 43 Full arterial revascularization for the treatment of CAd, 000 Hans-Joachim Schäfer 44 Cell therapy for acute myocardial infarctions, 000 Brigit Assmus and Volker Schaechinger SeCtIon 3 Aortic Coarctation, Aneurysms and dissections, 000 45 Pathology of aortic coarctation, aneurysms and dissections, 000 Michael Fishbein, Faquin Li and Chi Lai 46 Echocardiographic assessment of aortic aneurysms and dissections, 000 Thomas Bartel 47 MSCt for assessment of aortic coarctation, aneurysms and dissections, 000 Suhny Abbara and Leon Shturman 48 Percutaneous treatment of aortic coarctation, 000 Shakeel A. Qureshi and John Thomson 49 Surgical treatment of aortic coarctation, 000 Markus Heinemann 50 Endovascular repair of thoracic aortic aneurysms, 000 Ibrahim Akin, Christoph Nienaber, Tim C Rehders, Hüseyin Ince and Stephan Kische 51 Endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms, 000 Richard Heuser and Ramil Goel 52 Endovascular repair of aortic dissections, 000 Sean O'Donnell 53 Surgical approaches to the treatment of aortic aneurysms and dissections, 000 Hazim J. Safi SeCtIon 4 Carotid and Cerebral Artery disease, 000 54 Pathology of ischemic stroke, 000 W. Roggendorf 55 interventional treatment of carotid artery disease, 000 Jennifer Franke 56 Surgical treatment of carotid artery disease, 000 Marc Bosiers 57 interventional treatment of stroke, 000 Kenneth V Snyder 58 interventional treatment of intracerebral aneurysms, 000 Erol Veznedaroglu 59 Surgical treatment of cerebral aneurysms, 000             R G Tawk SeCtIon 5 Renal and Peripheral Artery disease, 000 60 Sonographic assessment of renal artery stenosis, 000 Joerg Radermacher 61 interventional treatment of renal artery stenoses, 000 Thomas Zeller 62 Pathology of iliac and lower extremity artery disease, 000 Christian Ihling Contents 63 interventional treatment of iliac and lower extremity artery disease, 000 Dierk Scheinert and Andrej Schmidt 64 Surgical treatment of iliac and lower extremity artery disease, 000 Frank Varmassen Index