The Interventional Cardiac Catheterization Handbook

Michael Lim, M.D. is a board certified interventional cardiologist with 20 years of and is Chief of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Hackensack University Medical Center. Prior to joining Hackensack Meridian Medical Group, Dr. Lim served as the Jack Ford Shelby Endowed Professor in Cardiology and Professor of Internal Medicine at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Lim has held the role of principal investigator on numerous clinical trials for conditions including mitral valve disease, cardiogenic shock and coronary artery disease. Since 1990, he has contributed more than 100 publications to medical literature, including more than 30 book chapters. He has also served as an invited faculty member at numerous national conferences. Dr. Sorajja joined Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute - Minneapolis in 2013. He was previously a professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic before he left to join Minneapolis Heart Institute®. Dr. Sorajja is the author of over 100 published manuscripts and book chapters, and is a national speaker in the areas of valvular heart disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and complex hemodynamics. Dr. Sorajja's special interest is structural heart interventions, such as transcatheter aortic replacement (TAVR), balloon valvuloplasty, paravalvular leak repair, percutaneous valve implantation, and other similar therapies. Morton J. Kern, MD, FSCAI, FAHA, FACC, Professor de Medicina da Universidade da Califórnia, Irvine, Orange, Califórnia; Chief of Medicine, Health Care System Veterans Long Beach, Long Beach, Califórnia;

Section I - Coronary Interventions:



Basics of percutaneous coronary interventions
Vascular Access
Interventional Pharmacology
Guide catheters, guide wires, balloons, and stents
Intravascular lesion assessment: physiology and imaging
Adjunctive tools: atherectomy devices, laser, thrombectomy
Treatment of bifurcations
Percutaneous coronary interventions of chronic total occlusions
PCI in STEMI, NSTEMI, and shock
PCI with left ventricular hemodynamic support
Coils, plugs, covered stents, and snares
Complications of percutaneous coronary interventions
Section II - Non-Coronary Vascular Intervention

Vascular access for non-coronary intervention
Guides, wires, balloons, and stents for non-coronary interventions
Iliac and femoral peripheral vascular intervention
Aortic, renal, subclavian, and carotid interventions
Venous interventions

Pulmonary vascular interventions