Tips and Tricks of New Techniques beyond Stenting. Percutaneous Cardiac Interventions

Innovation in interventional cardiology extends well beyond coronary stenting. Most of new technical advances will be incorporated soon in our curriculum for training interventional cardiologists. At the same time, most currently accredited interventionalists will need to incorporate thèse new developments in their catheterisation laboratories. The issue facing these physicians today is how to gain experience in new techniques and what can be done to make their learning curve as short as possible. The aim of this work is to provide the reader with a book that is at the same time both clinical and yet practically oriented, covering interventional techniques of special interest to the interventionalist, and focusing on those common problems/dilemmas that beset the cathlab operator. The primary goal is to describe those “tips and tricks” that come from a seasoned operator’s experience, using their pointofview to illuminate the learning process of these new technologies which go beyond stenting in a way that is clear, precise and relevant...something the reader will not find in the average textbook. The content of each chapter includes an introduction to the device or anatomical problem, a stepby- step description of the procedure - fully illustrated– followed by a description of potential risks and complications as well as methods of preventing or treating them.

“We truly believe that the readers will not only enjoy this book, but learn from all the chapters presented here”

EDITOR’S BIOGRAPHY

Manel Sabaté, (1966, Barcelona, Spain) received his basic medical training at the Central University of Barcelona from which he graduated in June 1990. In December 1995, he got the degree of Cardiologist after his training as Resident of Cardiology (1990-1995) at the Hospital Prínceps d’Espanya de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain. From October 1997 to October 1999, he was appointed as Research and Clinical fellow at the Cath Lab, Thoraxcenter, Rotterdam, The Netherlands under the supervision of Professor Dr. Patrick W. Serruys. His PhD thesis (2000) was awarded cum laude at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He was appointed as Interventional Cardiologist at the Interventional Cardiology Department of the Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain from October 1999 to July 2005. He was appointed as Chief of the Interventional Cardiology Unit at the Sant Pau University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain between July 2005 and September 2009. He was appointed as Associated Professor of the Autonoma University of Barcelona from 2006 to 2009. He is currently working as Chief of the Cardiology Department of the Clinic University Hospital in Barcelona since September 2009. He is member of the EAPCI board and member of the Scientific Committee of the Euro-PCR since 2009. To date he is author of more than 160 papers, 20 book chapters and is the editor of 4 books.

BOOK’S CONTENT

Preface - Patrick W. Serruys

Introduction - Manel Sabaté

Part I - Diagnostic procedures

• Tips & tricks of intravascular ultrasound technique
  Paul Schoenhagen
• Tips & tricks of the assessment of coronary physiologic measurements
  Giovanna Sarno, Catalina Trana, Bernard de Bruyne
• Tips & tricks of virtual histology technique
  Héctor M. García-García, Jurgen Ligthart
• Tips & tricks of electromechanical mapping
  Pilar Jimenez-Quevedo, Emerson Perin
• Tips & tricks of optical coherence tomography technique
  Nieves Gonzalo, Jurgen Ligthart, Evelyn Regar
• Tips & tricks of intracoronary termography technique
  Konstantin Toutouzas, Andreas Synetos, Christodoulos Stefanadis

Part II - Therapeutic procedures

• Tips & tricks of rota-ablation technique
  Andrew Ong, Grayson G. Geary
• Tips & tricks of antegrade technique for chronic total occlusions
  Masahisa Yamane
• Tips & tricks of retrograde technique for chronic total occlusions
  Etsuo Tsuchikane
• Tips & tricks of thrombectomy devices
  Dariusz Dudek, Waldemar Mielecki
• Tips & tricks of distal protection devices
  Patrick Kay, Mark Webster
• Tips & tricks of proximal protection devices
  Alanna Coolong, Laura Mauri
• Tips & tricks of groin closure devices
  Filipe Seixo, Victoria Martin Yuste, Manel Sabaté
• Tips & tricks of retrieval devices techniques
  Goran Stankovic, Zelimir Antonic, Dragan Sagic, Manuel Pan
• Tips & tricks of trans-septal puncture
  Dominique Himbert, Eric Brochet, Gregory Ducrocq, Alec Vahanian
• Tips & tricks of ventricular assist devices
  Annemarie E. Engström, Sukhdeep S Basra, Biswajit Kar, José P. Henriques
• Tips & tricks of patent foramen ovale closure
  Bernard Meier
• Tips & tricks of atrial septal defect closure
  Michael Hickman, Stephen Brecker
• Tips & tricks of persistent ductus arteriosus closure
  Ralf J. Holzer
• Tips & tricks of paravalvular leak closure
  Eulogio Garcia, Ricardo Sanz-Ruiz
• Tips & tricks of aortic coarctation treatment
  Carlos Pedra

Part III - New developments

• Tips & tricks of transfemoral aortic stenosis treatment (I)
  Alan Zajarias, Helene Eltchaninoff, Alain Cribier
• Tips & tricks of transfemoral aortic stenosis treatment (II)
  Peter Wenaweser, Stephan Windecker
• Tips & tricks of transapical aortic stenosis treatment
  Thomas Walther, Jörg Kempfert, Volkmar Falk
• Tips & tricks of percutaneous mitral valve repair
  Roberto J. Cubeddu, Igor Palacios
• Tips & Tricks of percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation
  Philipp C. Lurz, Ingo Daehnert, Philipp Bonhoeffer