| Description |
1 online resource (274 pages) |
| Contents |
Front cover; Contents; Preface; List of contributors; How to use the CD-ROMs; Chapter 1. Drug-Eluting Stent Platforms; Sirolimus-eluting stents: from clinical trials to real world; Taxus tips & tricks; Chapter 2. General Approach with Drug-Eluting Stents; Chapter 3. Lesion-Specific Stenting; Introduction: practical approaches to bifurcational lesions; Lessons from the literature; Case examples; Didactic crushing cases; Laboratory insights with different techniques of drug-eluting stent implantation in bifurcations; New approaches to chronic total occlusions |
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Approach to thrombus-containing lesionsChapter 4. Surgical Arena; Left main stenting; Multivessel treatment; Chapter 5. Special Subsets; Drug-eluting stents for in-stent restenosis; Treatment of saphenous vein grafts and left internal mammary artery; Chapter 6. Special Procedures; Atherectomy and rotablation; IVUS guidance; Chapter 7. Problems; Drug-eluting stent complications; Complications with drug-eluting stents: my worst nightmares; Stent thrombosis after Cypher and Taxus stent implantation; Drug-eluting stent failures; Chapter 8. A View from the USA; Experience with drug-eluting stents |
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Chapter 9. Noninvasive EvaluationStress echo in percutaneous coronary interventions -- should anything be changed in the drug-eluting stent era?; Chapter 10. Cost-Effeciveness Analysis; Economic considerations of drug-eluting stents; Index; Back cover |
| Summary |
A trailblazer in interventional cardiology, Dr. Antonio Colombo combines his vast experience with that of Goran Stankovic and distinguished colleagues to share tips and tricks for dealing with diseased coronary arteries. Whether discussing his 'crushing and kissing' techniques or the stenting of tortuous vessels in the elderly, Dr. Colombo and his colleagues' texts and case commentaries provide the reader with succinct and simple advice based on personal experience. They provide the most comprehensive and practical guide available for those involved in coronary artery stenting. The images are |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Coronary arteries -- Stenosis -- Relapse -- Treatment
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Coronary heart disease -- Surgery.
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Drug delivery systems.
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Stents (Surgery)
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Drug Delivery Systems
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Coronary heart disease -- Surgery
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Drug delivery systems
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Stents (Surgery)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stankovic, Goran
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| ISBN |
9781135409456 |
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1135409455 |
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