Manual of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions A Step-by-Step Approach

Manual of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions: A Step by Step Approach is a practical, easy to read reference guide on how to perform percutaneous coronary. Written by recognized experts in the field, this reference compiles the necessary steps, lists pitfalls to watch out for, and provides tactics on troubleshooting percutaneous coronary interventions. Written to bring a practical and easy to read approach, this book is perfect for interventional cardiologists, interventional and general cardiology fellows, cardiology researchers, physicians, cardiac catheterization laboratory personnel, technical staff, industry professionals and anyone interested in understanding the cutting-edge and rapidly evolving field of coronary PCI.

• Provides a practical, case-oriented and easy to read reference with four color illustrations and step-by-step guidance for percutaneous coronary intervention
• Includes expert guidance from leaders with large clinical experience
• Includes access to a companion website that houses videos that demonstrate various PCI techniques, including narration

Table of Contents

Part A: The steps

1. Planning
2. Monitoring
3. Medications
4. Access
5. Coronary and graft engagement
6. Coronary angiography
7. Selecting target lesion(s)
8. Wiring
9. Lesion preparation
10. Stenting
11. Access closure
12. Coronary physiology
13. Coronary intravascular imaging
14. Hemodynamic support

Part B: Complex lesion subsets  

15. Ostial lesions

16. Bifurcations

17. Left main

18. Bypass grafts—prior CABG patients

19. Calcification

20. Acute coronary syndromes—

thrombus

21. Chronic total occlusions

22. Other complex lesions

23. Balloon uncrossable and balloon undilatable lesions

24. Complex patient subgroups

Part C: Complications  

25. Acute vessel closure

26. Perforation

27. Equipment loss and entrapment

28. Other complications: hypotension, radiation skin injury, contrast-induced acute kidney injury

29. Vascular access complications

Part D: Equipment

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