Update in Interventional Cardiology

This book is a practical guide providing cardiologists with the latest advances in interventional cardiology.

Divided into 24 chapters, much of the text is dedicated to procedures for the diagnosis and management of occlusive coronary artery disease.

Basic and complex techniques are described in detail, with useful tips on how to prevent or manage complications.

Guidance on decision making in the cath lab based on recent data is also provided.

The comprehensive text is further enhanced by nearly 200 clinical images, diagrams and tables.

Key points

• Practical guide to latest advances in interventional cardiology
• Much of text is dedicated to diagnosis and management of occlusive coronary artery disease
• Provides guidance on decision making in the cath lab
• Highly illustrated with nearly 200 images and tables
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Table of Contents:

1. Vascular Access 1 Ajit Desai, Rahul Chhabria

2. Coronary Stents: Evolution and Advances 11 Praveen Chandra, Rashmi Xavier, Rohit Goel, Kajal Aggarwal

3 Slender Transradial Interventions 26 Sanjay Kumar Chugh, Yashasvi Chugh, Sunita Chugh

4 Left Main Coronary Intervention 37 Vinay K Bahl, Anunay Gupta

5. Current Approach to Chronic Total Occlusions 45 Kirti Punamiya

6. Ostial Lesions 60 Ajit S Mullasari, Srinivasan Narayan

7. Coronary Bifurcation Lesions 70 Nihar Mehta, Ashok Seth

8. Calcified Lesions 97 Mathew Samuel Kalarickal, Vijayakumar Subban

9. PCI in Patients Post Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts 116 Shirish (MS) Hiremath, Satishkumar S Kolekar

10. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction 136 Hetan C Shah, Ashwin B Mehta

11. High-Risk Percutaneous Coronary Interventions 149 Upendra Kaul, Satyendra Tiwari

12. Complications during Percutaneous Coronary Interventions 162 Vijay Trehan, Prattay Guhasarkar

13. Intracoronary Assessment: Role of IVUS and OCT 179 G Sengottuvelu, G Raghul

14. Role of FFR in Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease 197 CG Bahuleyan, Shifas Babu 15. Cardiac MRI and Cardiac CT: Indispensable Tools for the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease 211 Bhavin Jankharia, Parang Sanghavi, Aamish Kazi Contents xvi Update in Interventional Cardiology

16. Radionuclide Studies in Cardiology 218 Vikram R Lele

17. Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty 229 Manjunath CN, Nagaraja Moorthy

18. Pulmonary and Aortic Balloon Valvuloplasty 247 Bharat Dalvi, Kshitij Sheth, Shreepal Jain

19. Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)— Current Status 263 Ashwin B Mehta, Nihar Mehta

20. Transcatheter Closure of Congenital Heart Defects 289 Prafulla Kerkar, Dhiraj Kumar

21. Interventions in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy 304 Samin K Sharma, Mithun J Varghese, Annapoorna Kini

22. Interventions in Pulmonary Embolism 315 Bharat Shivdasani, Rahul Chhabria

23. Recent Advances in Cardiac Electrophysiology 328 Andhalkar Bhagyashree, Amit Vora 24. Newer Devices in Electrophysiology: Leadless Pacemakers and Subcutaneous ICD 336 Ameya Udyavar Index 347