""Book Cover""; ""Half-Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""1 Who should not go to the cathlab? ""; ""2 Radiation safety in the catheterization laboratory""; ""3 Current use of antiplatelet agents ""; ""4 Complications and how to deal with them""; ""5 Vascular access ""; ""6 Basic coronary angiography: techniques, tools and troubleshooting ""; ""7 Right heart catheterization and hemodynamic profiles ""; ""8 Balloon angioplasty ""; ""9 Coronary stenting""; ""10 Ablative techniques in coronary intervention ""
""11 Treatment of complex angioplasty subsets""""12 Primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction ""; ""13 The role of distal protection devices""; ""14 Pathophysiology of restenosis ""; ""15 Pharmacological treatment of restenosis ""; ""16 Mechanical treatment of in-stent restenosis""; ""17 Restenosis and brachytherapy""; ""18 Drug-eluting stents ""; ""19 Intravascular ultrasound ""; ""20 Physiological assessment of coronary circulation using pressure and Doppler guidewires ""; ""21 Invasive imaging of vulnerable plaque ""
""22 Noninvasive coronary imaging with multislice spiral computed tomography """"23 Myogenesis: an update on muscle regeneration ""; ""24 Circulatory assist devices""; ""25 Groin closure devices ""; ""26 Stent retrieval ""; ""27 Percutaneous atrial septal defect, patent foramen ovale closure and patent ductus arteriosus closure ""; ""28 Carotid and peripheral angiography and intervention ""; ""29 The importance of echocardiography to the interventionalist ""; ""30 Percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty ""; ""Index ""