Oxford Textbook of Interventional Cardiology

Table of Contents
Section 1: Background and basics
The epidemiology and pathophysiology of coronary artery disease / The history of interventional cardiology / Risk assessment and analysis of outcomes / Vascular access: femoral versus radial / Radiation and percutaneous coronary intervention / The 'golden rules' of percutaneous coronary intervention / Routine management after percutaneous coronary intervention
Section 2: Percutaneous coronary intervention-related imaging
Angiography: indications and limitations / Coronary physiology in clinical practice / The role of intravascular ultrasound in percutaneous coronary intervention / Virtual histology intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography in percutaneous coronary intervention / Coronary computed tomography for the interventionalist / Cardiovascular magnetic resonance
Section 3: Percutaneous coronary intervention by clinical syndrome
Stable coronary artery disease: medical therapy versus percutaneous coronary intervention versus surgery / Percutaneous coronary intervention in non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome / Primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST elevation myocardial infarction / Percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with impaired left ventricular function
Section 4: Percutaneous coronary intervention by lesion and patient subsets
Coronary bifurcation stenting: state of the art / Percutaneous coronary intervention for unprotected and protected left main stem disease / Chronic total occlusions / Revascularization in diabetes mellitus
Section 5: Adjunctive therapies in percutaneous coronary intervention
Current status of oral antiplatelet therapies / Current status of GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors / The contemporary use of antiplatelet therapy in interventional cardiology / The role of bivalirudin in percutaneous coronary intervention / Optimal medical therapy in percutaneous coronary intervention patients: statins and ACE inhibitors as disease-modifying agents
Section 6: Complications of percutaneous coronary intervention
Contrast-induced acute kidney injury / In-stent restenosis in the drug-eluting stent era / Stent thrombosis / Stent loss and retrieval / No-reflow / Coronary artery perforation
Section 7: Special devices in percutaneous coronary intervention
Rotational atherectomy / Laser / Cutting balloons and AngioSculpt / Thrombus extraction in the contemporary management of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction / Distal protection
Section 8: Non-coronary percutaneous interventions
Percutaneous device closure of atrial septal defect and patent foramen ovale / Transcatheter aortic valve replacement / Mitral balloon valvuloplasty / Alcohol septal ablation for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy / Carotid artery stenting
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