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Background and basics
1. The epidemiology and pathophysiology of coronary artery disease
2. The history of interventional cardiology
3. Risk assessment and analysis of outcomes
4. Vascular access: femoral versus radial
5. Radiation and percutaneous coronary intervention
6. The 'golden rules' of percutaneous coronary intervention
7. Routine management after percutaneous coronary intervention
Percutaneous coronary intervention-related imaging
8. Angiography: indications and limitations
9. Coronary physiology in clinical practice
10. The role of intravascular ultrasound in percutaneous coronary intervention
11. Virtual histology intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography in percutaneous coronary intervention
12. Coronary computed tomography for the interventionalist
13. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance
Percutaneous coronary intervention by clinical syndrome
14. Stable coronary artery disease: medical therapy versus percutaneous coronary intervention versus surgery
15. Percutaneous coronary intervention in non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome
16. Primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST elevation myocardial infarction
17. Percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with impaired left ventricular function
Percutaneous coronary intervention by lesion and patient subsets
18. Coronary bifurcation stenting: state of the art
19. Percutaneous coronary intervention for unprotected and protected left main stem disease
20. Chronic total occlusions
21. Revascularization in diabetes mellitus
Adjunctive therapies in percutaneous coronary intervention
22. Current status of oral antiplatelet therapies
23. Current status of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors
24. The contemporary use of antiplatelet therapy in interventional cardiology
25. The role of bivalirudin in percutaneous coronary intervention
26. Optimal medical therapy in percutaneous coronary intervention patients: statins and ACE inhibitors as disease-modifying agents
Complications of percutaneous coronary intervention
27. Contrast-induced acute kidney injury
28. In-stent restenosis in the drug-eluting stent era
29. Stent thrombosis
30. Stent loss and retrieval
31. No-reflow
32. Coronary artery perforation
Special devices in percutaneous coronary intervention
33. Rotational atherectomy
34. Laser
35. Cutting balloons and AngioSculpt
36. Thrombus extraction in the contemporary management of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
37. Distal protection
Non-coronary percutaneous interventions
38. Percutaneous device closure of atrial septal defect and patent foramen ovale
39. Transcatheter aortic valve replacement
40. Mitral balloon valvuloplasty
41. Alcohol septal ablation for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
42. Carotid artery stenting.
Oxford textbook of interventional cardiology. ISBN 9780199569083. Published by Oxford University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.