Practical Handbook of Advanced Interventional Cardiology

Continued advances in cardiology have led to unprecedented scientific progress in recent years. However, no matter how advanced the science, the successful application of interventional cardiology relies upon a practitioner’s ability to approach interventional techniques competently and confidently in every situation.

Fully updated and featuring new chapters and additional tips and tricks, this latest edition of Dr Nguyen, Colombo, Hu, Grines, and Saito’s celebrated book provides a complete yet concise guide to practical interventional cardiology that deserves a place in every cardiac laboratory. Culled from the personal experience of over fifty international experts, the book incorporates more than 500 practical tips and tricks for performing interventional cardiovascular procedures. Each strategic or tactical move is graded by complexity level and described in a simple, step-by-step approach that includes guidance on how to overcome practical difficulties, providing a comprehensive resource that can benefit both beginner or experienced operators.

As well as covering the latest developments in interventional cardiology, this third edition includes technical tips that promote user-friendly performance, low complication rates, cost- and time-efficient approaches and cost- and time-effective selection of devices to help optimize the practice of modern interventional cardiology.

Thach N Nguyen, MD, FACC, FACP, FSCAI
Director of Cardiology, Community Health System, St Mary Medical Center, Hobart, IN, USA
Dr Thach N Nguyen is director of cardiology at Community Health System, St Mary Medical Center, Hobart IN. Since 1992, he actively participated in the organization of the Great Wall International Congress of Cardiology, the largest cardiology educational meeting for China. His major publications include Management of Complex Cardiovascular Problems (second edition in English, Spanish and Vietnamese 2002). Practical Handbook of Advanced Interventional Cardiology (2nd edition Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2003, 3rd edition, Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2007). He has an academic appointment at Indiana University School of Medicine, honorary professorship of medicine at the Capital University of Medical Sciences and the Institute of Geriatric Cardiology of The Central People Liberation Army Hospital 301, Beijing, China. He is editorial consultant for the Journal of Interventional Cardiology and co-editor of the Journal of Geriatric Cardiology.

Antonio Colombo, MD
Director, Cardiac Catheterization laboratory
Centro Cuore Columbus, Milan, Italy
Dr. Antonio Colombo is an expert interventional cardiologist with a very large experience in coronary stenting and peripheral vascular disease, angioplasty and stenting.
His particular fields of expertise are treatment of chronic total occlusions and treatment of diffuse disease in the performance of procedures which demand the usage of atherectomy devices.
Dr. Colombo practices in Milano, Italy, as well as in New York, USA at Columbia Medical Center.

Dayi Hu, MD
Dean of Tonji University School of Medicine
Shanghai, China

Cindy L. Grines, MD
Director of Cardiac Catherization Labratories
Williams Beaumont Hospital
Royal Oak, MI, USA

Shigeru Saito, MD
Director of Cardiac Catherization Labratories
Kamakura Hospital, Kamakura, Japan