Interventional Cardiology and Angiology

ISBN-13: 9783662121160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 218 str.

E. Erdmann; G. Steinbeck; B. -E Strauer

Spis treści

Current and future techniques in interventional cardiology and angiology.- Current and future techniques in interventional cardiology and angiology.- Additional aspects to balloon angioplasty.- Long wire technique for coronary angioplasty — the Frankfurt experience.- Advances in x-ray equipment — digital subtraction angiography with on-line quantification.- Myocardial release of lactate, hypoxanthine, and urate during and following percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Potential mechanism for the generation of free radicals.- Adenosine production during balloon-induced ischemia.- Can one predict reversibility of regional ventricular dysfunction?.- Current assessment of balloon valvuloplasty.- Quantitative and qualitative morphological changes during intraoperative balloon valvuloplasty.- What can we learn from classical operative techniques for valvular balloon dilatation?.- Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty of aortic stenosis in 110 consecutive patients.- Balloon aortic valvuloplasty in adults: report of 78 consecutive patients.- Experience with mitral valvuloplasty.- Assessment of left ventricular function during aortic balloon valvuloplasty by transesophageal echocardiography.- New techniques for revascularization.- Percutaneous transluminal atherectomy of the peripheral and coronary arteries.- Histological findings from “atherectomy” specimens.- Cell culture of human atheromatous plaque material.- Low-speed rotational angioplasty — clinical results in 53 patients with chronic occlusions.- Laser angioplasty: 1988.- Intraoperative coronary laser angioplasty — first clinical experiences with a new method.- Laser angioplasty of iliac and femoropopliteal obstructive lesions.- Radiofrequency coronary angioplasty in patients with coronary artery disease — a new method for treatment of coronary artery stenoses.- Angioscopy in the evaluation of interventional cardiovascular procedures.- Progress in intravascular real-time cross-sectional ultrasonic imaging at the Thoraxcenter.- Current status of intracoronary stents.- Interventional techniques for arrhythmia control.- Cardiac tachyarrhythmias: alternatives to medical treatment.- Catheter ablation: the state of the art.- Preoperative and intraoperative mapping in patients with sustained ventricular tachycardia.- Surgical therapy of ventricular tachycardia.- Interventional cardiology today.

O autorze

Prof. Dr. med. Erland Erdmann ist Direktor der Klinik III für Innere Medizin (Kardiologie, Angiologie, Pneumologie und Internistische Intensivmedizin) am Klinikum der Universität zu KölnTagungspräsident des Kardiologenkongresses 04/2003 -2007; mit dem Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse ausgezeichnet