Table of Contents

Part: Section 1: Septal Defects and Valvular Heart Disease
CHAPTER 2
Echocardiography of Atrial and Ventricular Septal Defects (Pages: 14-24)
Natesa G. Pandian MD Antonietta Evangelista MD Francesco F. Faletra MD Stefano De Castro MD Siew Yen Ho PHD, FRCPath, FESC Anirban Banerjee MD Carey Kimmelstiel MD
CHAPTER 4
Catheter Closure of Atrial and Ventricular Septal Defects (Pages: 38-49)
Ignacio Inglessis MD Neil Wilson MB BS, DCH, FRCP, FRCP(CH) Michael de Moor MBBCh, FACC, FSCAI
CHAPTER 5
Catheter Closure of Patent Foramen Ovale (Pages: 50-61)
Nina Wunderlich MD Katharina Lehn Neil Wilson MB BS, DCH, FRCP, FRCP(CH) Horst Sievert MD, FESC, FACC
CHAPTER 7
Pathology of Aortic Stenosis (Pages: 71-85)
Nikolaus Gassler MD, MA Philipp A. Schnabel MD
CHAPTER 8
Echocardiography of Aortic Stenosis (Pages: 86-96)
Michael J. Kostal MD Susan E. Wiegers MD
CHAPTER 9
MRI of Aortic Stenosis (Pages: 97-102)
Daniel Thomas MD Torsten Sommer MD
CHAPTER 12
Pathology of Aortic Insufficiency (Pages: 126-133)
Philipp A. Schnabel MD Artur Lichtenberg MD, PhD Esther Herpel MD Arne Warth Nikolaus Gassler MD, MA
CHAPTER 15
Surgical Reconstruction of the Aortic Valve (Pages: 149-158)
Diana Aicher MD Hans-Joachim Schäfers MD, PhD
CHAPTER 16
Pathology of Mitral Stenosis (Pages: 159-162)
Arne Warth MD Esther Herpel MD Philipp A. Schnabel MD
CHAPTER 19
Catheter-Based Mitral Valvuloplasty (Pages: 181-194)
Prafulla G. Kerkar MD Milind S. Phadke MD
CHAPTER 20
Surgical Management of Mitral Stenosis (Pages: 195-202)
Kevin L. Greason MD Hartzell V. Schaff MD
CHAPTER 21
Pathology of Mitral Insufficiency (Pages: 203-208)
Esther Herpel MD Arne Warth MD Artur Lichtenberg MD, PhD Philipp A. Schnabel MD
CHAPTER 22
Echocardiography of Mitral Insufficiency (Pages: 209-220)
Juan Luis Gutiérrez-Chico MD, PhD, FESC Pedro Marcos-Alberca MD, PhD José Luis Zamorano MD, PhD, FESC
CHAPTER 25
Perspectives on Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair (Pages: 233-241)
Frederick St. Goar MD, FACC, FSCAI Saibal Kar MD, FACC, FSCAI Ted Feldman MD, FACC, FSCAI
Part: Section 2: Coronary Heart Disease
CHAPTER 26
Pathology of Coronary Artery Disease (Pages: 243-254)
Paul Fefer MD Jagdish Butany MD Bradley H. Strauss MD, PhD, FACC
CHAPTER 31
Grayscale Intravascular Ultrasound and Virtual Histology of the Unstable Coronary Lesion (Pages: 301-312)
Hector M. Garcia-Garcia MD, MSc Nieves Gonzalo MD Anne L. Gaster MD, PhD Patrick W. Serruys MD, PhD, FESC, FACC
CHAPTER 33
Thermography of the Unstable Coronary Lesion (Pages: 320-329)
Konstantinos Toutouzas MD Maria Drakopoulou MD Christodoulos Stefanadis MD
CHAPTER 34
Coronary Stent Technology (Pages: 330-344)
Neville Kukreja MA, MRCP Yoshinobu Onuma MD Patrick W. Serruys MD, PhD, FESC, FACC
CHAPTER 35
Adjunctive Techniques for PCI (Pages: 345-355)
Suntharo Ly MD Seth Assar MD Richard Heuser MD, FACC, FACP, FESC, FASCI
CHAPTER 37
Complex Percutaneous Coronary Interventions—Left Main, Bifurcation, and Ostial Disease (Pages: 370-386)
Savio D'Souza MD Peter Barlis MD Giuseppe Ferrante MD Carlo Di Mario MD, PhD
CHAPTER 38
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Multivessel Disease (Pages: 387-399)
Yoshinobu Onuma MD Neville Kukreja MA, MRCP Patrick W. Serruys MD, PhD, FESC, FACC
CHAPTER 41
Pharmacology in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory (Pages: 428-447)
Sara D. Collins MD Asmir I. Syed MD Ron Waksman MD, FACC
CHAPTER 42
Magnetic Navigation in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (Pages: 448-456)
Steve Ramcharitar BM, BCh, DPhil, MRCP Patrick W. Serruys MD, PhD, FESC, FACC
CHAPTER 43
Arterial Revascularization of Coronary Artery Disease (Pages: 457-472)
Hans-Joachim Schäfers MD, PhD Takashi Kunihara MD, PhD
Part: Section 3: Aortic Coarctation, Aneurysms, and Dissections
CHAPTER 45
Pathology of Aortic Coarctation, Aneurysm, and Dissection (Pages: 485-501)
Faqian Li MD, PhD Chi K. Lai MD, FRCPC Michael C. Fishbein MD
CHAPTER 50
Endovascular Repair of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms (Pages: 545-555)
Ibrahim Akin MD Tim C. Rehders MD Stephan Kische MD Hüseyin Ince MD Christoph A. Nienaber MD, PhD
CHAPTER 51
Endovascular Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (Pages: 556-562)
Richard R. Heuser MD, FACC, FACP, FESC, FASCI Ramil Goel MD
CHAPTER 52
Acute Aortic Dissection (Pages: 563-569)
Sean O'Donnell MD, FACS Shawn McMahon PA, MPH
CHAPTER 53
Surgical Approaches to the Treatment of Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections (Pages: 570-577)
Kourosh Keyhani MD Anthony L. Estrera MD Charles C. Miller III PhD Hazim J. Safi MD
Part: Section 4: Carotid and Cerebral Artery Disease
CHAPTER 56
Surgical Treatment of Carotid Artery Disease (Pages: 596-608)
Marc Bosiers MD Christos Lioupis MD Koen Deloose MD Jurgen Verbist MD Patrick Peeters MD
CHAPTER 57
Interventional Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke (Pages: 609-628)
Sabareesh K. Natarajan MD, MS Kenneth V. Snyder MD, PhD Adnan H. Siddiqui MD, PhD Elad I. Levy MD L. Nelson Hopkins MD
CHAPTER 58
Interventional Treatment of Intracerebral Aneurysms (Pages: 629-635)
Pascal Jabbour MD Adytia Pandey MD Erol Veznedaroglu MD
CHAPTER 59
Surgical Treatment of Cerebral Aneurysms (Pages: 636-648)
Rabih G. Tawk MD Adnan H. Siddiqui MD, PhD Elad I. Levy MD L. Nelson Hopkins MD