Created by world-renown editors who have assembled a stellar team, a Who s Who of pediatric and adult cardiologists, surgeons, and interventionalists who offer the reader pearls of wisdom based on daily practice in the cath lab, this practical guide discusses methods to overcoming complications in the interventional treatment of congenital and structural heart disease for invasive cardiologists in the pediatric and adult fields.

The advice of the text is practical, and full descriptions and illustrations are presented about current technology and how it has revolutionized...

Mitral regurgitation (MR) affects millions of patients world-wide. It is a progressive disease which worsens when left untreated. MR leads to compensatory remodeling of the left ventricle resulting in reduced functional capacity, poor quality of life, repeat hospitalizations, and eventually death from heart failure. Open, arrested heart surgery has until now been the therapeutic treatment of choice. However, many high-risk patients cannot tolerate traditional heart surgery and continue to suffer from severe MR.In this exciting new title, international key opinion leaders discuss in-depth the...

Written by leaders in this breakthrough field, the Atlas is the first book of its kind to accommodate the new percutaneous MitraClip procedure for mitral valve repair. Includes basic and complex case examples, step-by-step procedure guides and more.