Current Best Practice in Interventional Cardiology (eBook)

Bernhard Meier, MD, FACC, FESC Professor and Chairman Department of Cardiology University Hospital 3010 Bern Switzerland

Part I Coronary artery disease.

· Acute coronary syndrome - Marco Roffi, Zurich,
Switzerland, Pierre-Frédéric Keller, Geneva,
Switzerland.

· Modern coronary stenting - Stéphane
Cook/Stephan Windecker, Otto Hess, Bern, Switzerland.

- DES.

- Passive modern stents.

- Late thrombosis.

- Stenting of nonsignificant lesions (plaque sealing).

- Comparison with medical treatment or bypass surgery.

- Bioactive stents.

· Chronic total occlusion - Yaron Almagor,
Jerusalem, Israel.

· Nonrevascularization therapy - Jean-Paul Schmid,
Bern, Switzerland.

- Shock wave therapy.

- Spinal stimulation.

- Coronary sinus restriction.

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Part II Noncoronary interventions.

· Percutaneous valve replacement or repair -
Hélène Eltchaninoff, Rouen, France.

· PFO closure - Bernhard Meier, Bern
Switzerland.

· ASD and VSD closure - tentatively: David Hildick
Smith, London, UK.

· Carotid angioplasty - Sri Iyer, New York,
USA.

· Alcohol ablation of hyperthrophic cardiomyopathy -
Otto Hess, Bern, Switzerland.

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Part III Treatment of left ventricular failure.

· Biventricular pacing - Etienne Delacrétaz,
Bern Switzerland.

· Percutaneous left ventricular assist devices -
Pim de Feyter, Rotterdam, NL .

· Stem cell therapy - Andreas Zeiher, Frankfurt,
Germany.

· Drug therapy in conjunction with interventions -
Roger Hullin, Bern, Switzerland.

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Part IV Cardiovascular imaging.

· Computed tomography (CT) for screening and follow-up
- Stephan Achenbach, Erlangen, Germany.

· Magnetic resonance (MR) for functional testing and
interventional guidance - Andreas Wahl, Bern,
Switzerland.

· Optical coherence tomography (OCT) -
Jean-François Surmely, Aarau, Switzerland.

· Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) - Peter J.
Fitzgerald, Stanford, CA, USA