Cardiovascular Interventions in Clinical Practice

Jurgen Haase , MD , PhD, Professor of Medicine, Senior Consultant Cardiologist, Red Cross Hospital Cardiology Center, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Hans-Joachim Schafers, 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

List of Contributors. Preface. SECTION 1 SEPTAL DEFECTS AND VALVULAR HEART DISEASE. PART A Atrial and Ventricular Septal Defects. 1 Pathology of Atrial and Ventricular Septal Defects ( Siew Yen Ho ). 2 Echocardiography of Atrial and Ventricular Septal Defects ( Natesa G. Pandian, Antonietta Evangelista, Francesco F. Faletra, Stefano De Castro, Siew Yen Ho, Anirban Banerjee & Carey Kimmelstiel ). 3 MRI of Atrial and Ventricular Septal Defects ( Philipp Beerbaum ). 4 Catheter Closure of Atrial and Ventricular Septal Defects ( Ignacio Inglessis, Neil Wilson & Michael de Moor ). 5 Catheter Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale ( Nina Wunderlich, Katharina Lehn, Neil Wilson & Horst Sievert ). 6 Surgical Closure of Atrial and Ventricular Septal Defects ( Markus K. Heinemann ). PART B Aortic Stenosis. 7 Pathology of Aortic Stenosis ( Nikolaus Gassler & Philipp A. Schnabel ). 8 Echocardiography of Aortic Stenosis ( Michael J. Kostal & Susan E. Wiegers ). 9 MRI of Aortic Stenosis ( Daniel Thomas & Torsten Sommer ). 10 Surgical Replacement of the Aortic Valve ( Anton Moritz & Mirko Doss ). 11 Percutaneous Implantation of Aortic Valve Prostheses ( Robert H. Boone & John G. Webb ). PART C Aortic Insuffi ciency. 12 Pathology of Aortic Insuffi ciency ( Philipp A. Schnabel, Artur Lichtenberg, Esther Herpel, Arne Warth & Nikolaus Gassler ). 13 Echocardiography of Aortic Insuffi ciency ( Martin G. Keane & Susan E. Wiegers ). 14 MRI of Aortic Insuffi ciency ( Joachim Lotz ). 15 Surgical Reconstruction of the Aortic Valve ( Diana Aicher & Hans-Joachim Schafers ). PART D Mitral Stenosis. 16 Pathology of Mitral Stenosis ( Arne Warth, Esther Herpel & Philipp A. Schnabel ). 17 Echocardiography of Mitral Stenosis ( Wolfgang Fehske ). 18 MRI of Mitral Stenosis ( Matthias Gutberlet ). 19 Catheter-based Mitral Valvuloplasty ( Prafulla G. Kerkar & Milind S. Phadke ). 20 Surgical Management of Mitral Stenosis ( Kevin L. Greason & Hartzell V. Schaff ). PART E Mitral Insufficiency. 21 Pathology of Mitral Insufficiency ( Esther Herpel, Arne Warth, Artur Lichtenberg & Philipp A. Schnabel ). 22 Echocardiography of Mitral Insuffi ciency ( Juan Luis Gutierrez-Chico, Pedro Marcos-Alberca & Jose Luis Zamorano ). 23 MRI of Mitral Insuffi ciency ( Matthias Gutberlet ). 24 Surgical Management of Mitral Insuffi ciency ( Kevin L. Greason & Hartzell V. Schaff ). 25 Perspectives on Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair ( Frederick St. Goar, Saibal Kar & Ted Feldman ). SECTION 2 Coronary Heart Disease. 26 Pathology of Coronary Artery Disease ( Paul Fefer, Jagdish Butany & Bradley H. Strauss ). 27 Computed Tomography for the Detection of Coronary Artery Disease ( Dieter S. Ropers ). 28 Invasive Coronary Arteriography for Assessment of Coronary Artery Disease ( Jurgen Haase ). 29 Stress Echocardiography for Functional Assessment of Coronary Artery Disease ( Uwe Nixdorff ). 30 MRI for Functional Assessment of Coronary Artery Disease ( Juerg Schwitter ). PART A Invasive Assessment of the Unstable Coronary Lesion. 31 Grayscale Intravascular Ultrasound and Virtual Histology of the Unstable Coronary Lesion ( Hector M. Garcia-Garcia, Nieves Gonzalo, Anne L. Gaster & Patrick W. Serruys ). 32 Optical Coherence Tomography of the Unstable Coronary Lesion ( Ron Waksman & Tina L. Pinto Slottow ). 33 Thermography of the Unstable Coronary Lesion ( Konstantinos Toutouzas, Maria Drakopoulou & Christodoulos Stefanadis ). PART B Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. 34 Coronary Stent Technology ( Neville Kukreja, Yoshinobu Onuma & Patrick W. Serruys ). 35 Adjunctive Techniques for PCI ( Suntharo Ly, Seth Assar & Richard Heuser ). 36 Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Acute Myocardial Infarction ( Jurgen Haase ). 37 Complex Percutaneous Coronary Interventions-Left Main, Bifurcation, and Ostial Disease ( Savio D'Souza, Peter Barlis, Giuseppe Ferrante & Carlo Di Mario ). 38 Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Multivessel Disease ( Yoshinobu Onuma, Neville Kukreja & Patrick W. Serruys ). 39 Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Chronic Total Occlusions ( Osamu Katoh ). 40 Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for the Treatment of Saphenous Vein Grafts ( Paul Vermeersch & Pierfrancesco Agostoni ). 41 Pharmacology in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory ( Sara D. Collins, Asmir I. Syed & Ron Waksman ). 42 Magnetic Navigation in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention ( Steve Ramcharitar & Patrick W. Serruys ). 43 Arterial Revascularization of Coronary Artery Disease ( Hans-Joachim Schafers & Takashi Kunihara ). 44 Cell Therapy after Acute Myocardial Infarction ( Birgit Assmus & Volker Schachinger ). SECTION 3 Aortic Coarctation, Aneurysms, and Dissections. 45 Pathology of Aortic Coarctation, Aneurysm, and Dissection ( Faqian Li, Chi K. Lai & Michael C. Fishbein ). 46 Echocardiographic Assessment of Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections ( Thomas Bartel ). 47 MSCT for Assessment of Aortic Coarctation, Aneurysms, and Dissections ( Leon D. Shturman & Suhny Abbara ). 48 Percutaneous Treatment of Aortic Coarctation ( John D.R. Thomson & Shakeel A. Qureshi ). 49 Surgical Treatment of Aortic Coarctation ( Markus K. Heinemann ). 50 Endovascular Repair of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms ( Ibrahim Akin, Tim C. Rehders, Stephan Kische, Huseyin Ince & Christoph A. Nienaber ). 51 Endovascular Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm ( Richard R. Heuser & Ramil Goel ). 52 Acute Aortic Dissection ( Sean O'Donnell & Shawn McMahon ). 53 Surgical Approaches to the Treatment of Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections ( Kourosh Keyhani, Anthony L. Estrera, Charles C. Miller III & Hazim J. Safi ). SECTION 4 Carotid and Cerebral Artery Disease. 54 Pathology of Ischemic Stroke ( Wolfgang Roggendorf ). 55 Interventional Treatment of Carotid Artery Disease ( Jennifer Franke & Horst Sievert ). 56 Surgical Treatment of Carotid Artery Disease ( Marc Bosiers, Christos Lioupis, Koen Deloose, Jurgen Verbist & Patrick Peeters ). 57 Interventional Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke ( Sabareesh K. Natarajan, Kenneth V. Snyder, Adnan H. Siddiqui, Elad I. Levy & L. Nelson Hopkins ). 58 Interventional Treatment of Intracerebral Aneurysms ( Pascal Jabbour, Adytia Pandey & Erol Veznedaroglu ). 59 Surgical Treatment of Cerebral Aneurysms ( Rabih G. Tawk, Adnan H. Siddiqui, Elad I. Levy & L. Nelson Hopkins ). SECTION 5 Renal and Peripheral Artery Disease. 60 Sonographic Assessment of Renal Artery Stenosis ( Jorg Radermacher ). 61 Interventional Treatment of Renal Artery Stenosis ( Thomas Zeller ). 62 Pathology of Iliac and Lower Extremity Artery Disease ( Christian Ihling ). 63 Interventional Treatment of Iliac and Lower Artery Disease ( Dierk Scheinert & Andrej Schmidt ). 64 Surgical Treatment of Iliac and Lower Extremity Artery Disease ( Frank E.G. Vermassen ). Index.