Cases in Structural Cardiac Intervention

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Varghese, Anitha (Editor), Uren, Neal (Editor), Ludman, Peter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Interventional radiology.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Interventional Radiology.

This book utilizes case studies to illustrate a variety of percutaneous strategies to treat important cardiac pathology that would previously have mandated cardiac surgery. A desire to minimize the invasiveness of interventions and reduce patient exposure to risk have been the main drivers in develo...

Table of Contents:

• Transcatheter aortic valve implantation
• Mitral valve repair: clips and balloons
• Paravalvular leak closures
• Septal ablation In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Atrial fibrillation ablation
• Left atrial appendage occluders
• Pulmonary valve implantation
• Device closure in patent foramen ovale and atrial septal defects
• Percutaneous aortic coarctation repair
• Percutaneous coronary intervention
• Computed tomography angiography
• Perfusion cardiovascular magnetic resonance
• Myocardial contrast & stress echocardiography.