Percutaneous and Non-fluoroscopical (PAN) Procedure for Structural Heart Disease (eBook)

Xiangbin Pan is a hybrid doctor who has surgical and interventional licenses. He is the chief of the Department of Structural Heart Disease, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, China; Fu Wai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; and the Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.

 Ziyad M. Hijazi is the Chairman of PICS, the PICS-AICS Congress and the Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, Sidra Cardiac Program, and Sidra Medical & Research Center, Doha, Qatar.

Horst Sievert is the Chairman of CSI Congress and the Chair of CardioVascular Center Frankfurt, Germany.

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This book provides an extensive discussion of echocardiography-guided percutaneous interventional techniques for clinical practitioners, including cardiologists, interventional physicians, surgeons and specialist training candidates. It allows readers to gain a thorough understanding of interpreting echocardiography-guided procedures, which not only protect patients from pain and other complications associated with conventional surgery, but also obviate the use of fluoroscopy or contrast agents and so avoid radiation damage and the risks of allergy or renal function impairment. Further, these procedures could help to save patients in areas lacking medical resources.   The book first demonstrates the substitution of transesophageal for transthoracic echocardiography to avoid intubation under general anesthesia, and then presents key technical and practical aspects of echo-guided percutaneous interventions for structural heart diseases, such as ASD, VSD, PDA, PS, MS, AS and CoA. Lastly, it explores the lessons learned in echocardiography, anesthesia and postprocedural management of echo-guided percutaneous interventions.