The Interventional Cardiac Catheterization Handbook

Current, relevant, and evidence-based, The Interventional Cardiac Catheterization Handbook, 5th Edition, offers clear guidance on interventional cardiology in an easy-to-understand, concise format. This must-have handbook is an invaluable resource for physicians, nurses, and technicians in every cath lab, offering quick access to easily accessible guidelines on procedures and patient care. Packed with useful information, hundreds of clear images, and narrated videos from Dr. Kern, this practical manual ensures that health care workers at all levels have the tools they need to understand and perform these complex procedures.

• Covers a wide range of coronary and peripheral vascular interventional procedures, from the most common to the latest specialized interventions. 

• Incorporates the most up-to-date equipment with detailed, step-by-step techniques, cautionary notes, and outcomes. 

• Includes recent procedures such as TAVR, MitraClip™, atherectomy, applications of new non-hyperemic pressure ratios, and approach to LV mechanical support. 

• Features an easy-to-read outline format, bulleted summary boxes, and quick-reference tables, making this complex subject accessible and understandable. 

• Employs a multidisciplinary heart team approach, offering practical and authoritative guidance on the many nuances to these challenging procedures. 

• Includes dedicated chapters on catheters, guide wires, balloons, and stents; interventional pharmacology; PCI; and complications. 

• Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices. 

Michael Lim, M.D. is a board certified interventional cardiologist with 20 years of and is Chief of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Hackensack University Medical Center. Prior to joining Hackensack Meridian Medical Group, Dr. Lim served as the Jack Ford Shelby Endowed Professor in Cardiology and Professor of Internal Medicine at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Lim has held the role of principal investigator on numerous clinical trials for conditions including mitral valve disease, cardiogenic shock and coronary artery disease. Since 1990, he has contributed more than 100 publications to medical literature, including more than 30 book chapters. He has also served as an invited faculty member at numerous national conferences.

Dr. Sorajja joined Allina Health Minneapolis Heart Institute – Minneapolis in 2013. He was previously a professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic before he left to join Minneapolis Heart Institute®. Dr. Sorajja is the author of over 100 published manuscripts and book chapters, and is a national speaker in the areas of valvular heart disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and complex hemodynamics. Dr. Sorajja's special interest is structural heart interventions, such as transcatheter aortic replacement (TAVR), balloon valvuloplasty, paravalvular leak repair, percutaneous valve implantation, and other similar therapies.

Morton J. Kern, MD, FSCAI, FAHA, FACC, Professor de Medicina da Universidade da Califórnia, Irvine, Orange, Califórnia; Chief of Medicine, Health Care System Veterans Long Beach, Long Beach, Califórnia;