Oxford Textbook of Interventional Cardiology

* Covers the very latest techniques and devices to provide practical, evidence-based guidance on treating a full range of coronary lesions
* Based on the European curriculum and guidelines for practice
* Contains full-colour illustrations throughout to aid understanding
* Written by an expert faculty of international authors

Cardiac catheterization and coronary angiography remain the key tools in the management of patients with coronary heart disease. Interventional cardiology is now routinely performed outside of major cardiac centres, often in small district hospitals. General training in cardiology rarely offers more than the opportunity to assist a more senior operator to perform angioplasty procedures, so a textbook for the non-specialist has become essential reading.

Oxford Textbook of Interventional Cardiology is a definitive text spanning the whole spectrum of interventional cardiology procedures, including management of patients with coronary artery disease, one of the leading killers in western society. Written by an expert faculty of international authors, it offers guidance on all aspects of interventional cardiology according to the European curriculum and guidelines for practice, and covers the very latest techniques and devices to provide practical, evidence-based guidance on treating a full range of coronary lesions. The book also covers structural heart disease and new developments in heart valve disease, which were previously in the realm of cardiac surgeons but are now being treated by cardiologists using less invasive methods.

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