This new edition has been fully revised to provide clinicians with the latest advances in interventional cardiology, focusing on key procedures used in practice.
Beginning with an overview of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), the following sections discuss imaging techniques (IVUS and OCT), instruments such as stents, and techniques for different cardiovascular disorders.
A complete chapter is dedicated to drugs used in the catheterisation lab and mechanical circulatory support.
The book concludes with discussion on structural and congenital heart disease, and complications of PCI.
The third edition has been expanded and includes new topics and features numerous clinical photographs, diagrams and tables.
The previous edition (9789352700875) published in 2017.
1. Who Needs Percutaneous Coronary Intervention?
2. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Workstation (The Unsung Heroics)
3. Access (The Gateway of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention)
4. Hemodynamics in Catheterization Laboratory (The Guiding Star)
5. Vascular Anatomy and Radiographic Views (The Pathway)
6. Guide Catheters (The Platform)
7. Guidewires (The Lifeline)
8. Balloon Catheters (The First Revolution)
9. Stents
10. Nonangiographic Lesion Assessment (Adjunct Devices)
11. Drugs Used in the Catheterization Laboratory and Mechanical Circulatory
Support
12. Difficult Subsets Remember KISS (Keep it Simple Stupid)!
13. Structural Heart Disease (Balloon Valvuloplasty and the Beyond)
14. Congenital Heart Disease Intervention in Adults: ASD/VSD/PDA
15. Complications of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Shuvanan Ray MD DM FSCAI FACC FCSI
Director, Department of Cardiology, Chief of Cardiac Intervention, Fortis Hospitals, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
