Transcatheter Closure of ASDs and PFOs: A Comprehensive Assessment

In a single volume, Transcatheter Closure of ASDs and PFOs: A Comprehensive Assessment supplies pediatric cardiologists, interventional cardiologists, and cardiology fellows with expertise about all aspects of treating ASDs and PFOs.

Along with thorough discussions of fundamental topics such as anatomy, natural history, and indications, it offers abundant information about imaging techniques, surgical and nonsurgical procedures, devices, and trials. Every device currently available, both approved and nonapproved, is covered in detail along with technical analyses of how to close defects. In addition, this timely book addresses the association between PFOs and strokes and migraines, and examines the status of all trials relevant to transcatheter closure of ASDs and PFOs.<P>Part 1: Anatomy, Pathophysiology, and Natural History <BR>1. Anatomy of the Atrial Septum; Paul Weinberg, Akash Patel <BR>2. Natural and Unnatural History of a Secundum ASD; Thomas Graham, Tom Doyle <BR>3. Atrial Septal Defects: Clinical Perspectives; Wail Alkashkari, Ziyad Hijazi <BR>4. Historical Perspectives on ASD Device Closure; Terry King, Noel Mills <BR>5. PFO Closure for Prevention of Recurrent Stroke and TIA; Ted Feldman <BR>6. PFO and Migraines; Jonathan Tobis <P>Part 2: Imaging and Assessment <BR>7. Imaging to Guide ASD and PFO Closure--TTE and TEE; Sinai Zyblewski, Girish Shirali <BR>8. Imaging to Guide ASD and PFO Closure: Intracardiac Echocardiography (ICE); Mustafa Al-Qbandi, Qi-Ling Cao, Ziyad Hijazi <BR>9. Ct Evaluation of the Interatrial Septum in ASDs; Robert Quaife, John Carroll <BR>10. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Assessment of ASDs and PFOs: Relation to Pre Device Closure and Post; Mark Fogel <P>Part 3: Procedure Techniques <BR>11. Establishing a Program in Structural Heart Disease Interventional Therapies; Ted Feldman, Ziyad Hijazi <BR>12. How to Close Simple Atrial Septal Defects; Matthew Egan, Ralf Holzer <BR>13. Device Closure of Difficult ASDs; Mustafa Al-Qbandi, Ziyad Hijazi <BR>14. Device Closure of ASDs in Small Children; Mustafa Al-Qbandi, Ziyad Hijazi <BR>15. Device Closure of ASDs and PFOs in the Elderly: Hemodynamic Assessment; Mehmet Cilingiroglu, Ted Feldman <BR>16. Closure of ASDs with Pulmonary Hypertension: Assessing Operability; Sara M. Trucco, William Hellenbrand <BR>17. Device Closure of ASDs in Patients with R-L Shunt; Anas Salkini, John Moore <BR>18. Device Closure of Fenestrations Post Fontan Operation; Mustafa Al-Qbandi, Ziyad Hijazi <BR>19. Unusual Vascular Access to Close ASDs and PFOs; Larry Latson <BR>20. Transcatheter ASD Closure without Fluoroscopy; Peter Ewert, Felix Berger <BR>21. New Minimally Invasive Techniques for Surgical Closure of ASDs and PFOs; Nikolay Vasilyev, Pedro del Nido <BR>22. Complications of Device Closure of ASDs and PFOs; Zahid Amin <BR>23. Nightmare Cases in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory during Percutaneous Closure of ASD; Mustafa Al-Qbandi, Tarek Momenah, Ziyad Hijazi <BR>24. My Worst Nightmare Cases of PFO Closure; Tina Lehr, Sonya Joy, Kristina Renkhoff, Nina Wunderlich, Horst Sievert <P>Part 4: Devices <BR>25. Engineering Aspects of Metallic and Bioabsorbable Devices; Carol Devellian, Stephanie Kladakis, Steven Opolski <BR>26. The Amplatzer Devices for ASDs and PFOs; Trong-Phi Le, Horst Sievert <BR>27. The Gore Helex Septal Occluder; Ted Feldman <BR>28. The Occlutech Flex Devices for ASD and PFO; Horst Sievert, Nicolas Majunke <BR>29. Transcatheter Patch Device; Basilios Sideris, John Coulson, Eleftherios Sideris<BR>30. The CardioSEAL/STARFlex Family of Devices for Closure of Atrial Level Defects; Paul Kramer<BR>31. Bioabsorbable Devices: The BioSTAR and BioTREK for ASD and PFO; Ryan Ko, Michael Mullen<BR>32. Cardia Devices; Daniel Turner, Thomas Forbes<BR>33. The Solysafe Septal Occluder for the Closure of ASDs and PFOs; Peter Ewert

Ziyad M. Hijazi MD, MPH, FSCAI, FACC, FAAP, Director, Rush Center for Congenital & Structural Heart Disease, Pediatric Cardiology Section Chief and Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago<P>Ted Feldman MD FSCAI, FACC, FESC, Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, NorthShore University HealthSystem Evanston Hospital Evanston<P>Mustafa H. Abdullah Al-Qbandi MD, DCH, FAAP, FRCPc, FAAC, FSCAI, Consultant Pediatrician and Pediatric Cardiologist and Head of Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Chest Diseases Hospital--Kuwait Cardiac Centre <P>Horst Sievert MD, CardioVascular Center Frankfurt, Sankt Katharinen Hospital, Frankfurt