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Manual of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions

A Step-by-Step Approach

  • 1st Edition - October 17, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Emmanouil Brilakis
  • Language: English

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 recogn… Read more

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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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Interventional cardiologists, interventional and general cardiology fellows, cardiology researchers, physicians, cardiac catheterization laboratory personnel, technical staff, industry professionals and everyone else interested in understanding the cutting edge and rapidly evolving field of coronary PCI

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

30. Equipment

Review quotes

"The quality and content of this book is outstanding. It is an invaluable resource for interventional cardiology fellows and practicing interventional cardiologists in all aspects of coronary interventions with numerous algorithmic approaches and illustrations with examples."—Doody

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 19, 2020
  • Language: English

About the author

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Emmanouil Brilakis

Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI Dr. Brilakis is Director of the Center for Complex Coronary Interventions at the Minneapolis Heart Institute and the Center for. After graduating from Lycee Leonin de Patissia, Dr. Brilakis received his medical degree from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He trained in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases and Interventional Cardiology at the Mayo Clinic. He also completed a Masters in Clinical Research at the Mayo Clinic and a PhD in Clinical Research at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He served as Director of the VA North Texas Healthcare System Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories from 2004 to 2016. Dr. Brilakis leads a large clinical trial group investigating treatment of chronic total occlusions, prevention and treatment of saphenous vein graft disease, prevention and management of complications, intracoronary imaging, antiplatelet treatment optimization post coronary stenting, radiation safety in the catheterization laboratory, and implementation of novel technologies in healthcare. He is Associate Editor for Circulation and on the editorial board of several other journals and on the Board of Directors of the Cardiovascular Innovations Foundation. He has authored or co-authored over 600 manuscripts and the Manual of CTO Interventions, now in its 2nd edition. He and is lecturing and proctoring at several institutions in the United States and abroad.
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Center for Complex Coronary Interventions, Minneapolis Heart Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Chairman, Center for Coronary Artery Disease, Minneapolis, MN, USA

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