The Interventional Cardiology Handbook

1.     Percutaneous arterial and venous access and closure

Emanuele Barbato and Matteo Casenghi

2.     Right Heart Catheterization: A Practical Guide for Assessing Cardiac Disorders 

Omar Abdul-Jawad Altisent and Eduardo Flores-Umanzor

3.     Coronary Angiography

David del Val, Javier Cuesta, Teresa Bastante, Alexander Marschall, Blanca Santos, Lidia Vilches Fernando Rivero and Fernando Alfonso

4.     Myocardial flow evaluation

Josep Gómez Lara and Enrique Gutiérrez Ibañes

5.     Application of Coronary Physiology for Assessment of Epicardial Coronary Flow-Limiting Stenoses

Marco Lombardi, Nieves Gonzalo, Javier Escaned

6.     Introduction to intracoronary imaging techniques

Nitin Chandra Mohan, Thomas W. Johnson

7.     Treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions

Gabor Toth and Anass Maaroufi

8.     Left main treatment

Goran Stankovic and Dejan Milasinovic

9.     Cardiogenic Shock and Complex High-Risk Percutaneous Coronary Interventions

Marco Gamardella, Giulia Botti, Maurizio Bertania, Mario Iannaccone, Alaide Chieffo

10.  Calcified Coronary Lesions

Keyvan Karimi Galougahi, Doosup Shin, Ziad A. Ali

11.  Coronary chronic total occlusions

Alice Moroni, Kristina L. Obenauf, Stylianos A. Pyxaras, Pierfrancesco Agostoni, K. Mashayekhi

12.  Alcohol septal ablation

Ander Regueiro and….

13.  CT-guided PCI

Tatyana Storozhenko, Frederic Bouisset, Hirofumi Ohashi and Carlos Collet

14.  Transeptal puncture technique

Javier Tejero, Pamela Gatto and Francesco Maisano

15.  Computed tomography analysis for transcatheter aortic valve implantation

Vitaliy Androshchuk, Ronak Rajani, Simon Redwood and Tiffany Patterson

16.  Streamlined transfemoral TAVI

Omar A. Oliva, Mauro Boiago, Chiara De Biase, Didier Tchétché

17.  PCI in TAVI

Flavio Ribichini, Cesar Federico Vigo, José Rojas Diaz and Mattia Lunardi

18.  Edge-to-Edge Mitral Repair for Severe Mitral Regurgitation

Nicole Karam

19.  Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion

Andrea Ruberti, Eduardo Flores-Umanzor, Laura Sanchis and Xavier Freixa

20.  Angiography-guided closure of PFO and type 2 ASD

Jonas Dominik Häner and Lorenz Räber

21.  Intravascular foreign body retrieval

Ali Kerem Yılmaz, İlke Çelikkale and Ali Nazmi Çalık

22.  Endomyocardial biopsy

G. Occhipinti, A. Ruberti, R. Rinaldi and Guillermo de Jesus Velazquez Gutierrez

Biography

Salvatore Brugaletta, PhD is a Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist with vast experience in coronary and structural heart disease (intracoronary imaging and physiology, complex heart disease, left main, bifurcation, STEMI, cardiogenic shock, TAVI, LAA, etc). Highly skilled in Clinical Research, Medical Education and Medical Devices with strong commitment inside medical communities. Two PhDs focused on interventional cardiology from Erasmus University (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) and Sacred Heart Catholic University (Rome, Italy). He has authored around 400 manuscripts published in peer-reviewed journals. Clinically, his interests include: preventive cardiology, acute coronary syndrome / angina, drug eluting metallic and bioresorbable stents, invasive coronary imaging and TAVI (Transcatheter aortic valve implantation). Dr. Salvatore Brugaletta is an Interventional Cardiologist at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Spain.

Manel Sabaté, MD, PhD is Chief of the Interventional Cardiology Department at the Clinic University Hospital in Barcelona and Associate Professor of the Central University of Barcelona. From the clinical point of view, Dr. Sabaté’s interests include diagnosis and treatment of ischemic and valvular heart disease. He is specifically trained at cardiac catheterization, intravascular imaging and physiology, percutaneous coronary intervention and treatment of acquired structural heart disease including transcatheter aortic valve implantation and mitraclip implantation. From the research point of view, Dr. Sabaté is author of more than 650 papers (h index 74), >20 book chapters and is the editor of 5 books. He is included in the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2021 and 2022 published by Standford University. He is also included in the list of the 2024 edition of Research.com ranking of the best researchers in the arena of Medicine with a position of 15588 in the world. He is member of the editorial Board of several journals in the specialty and has been the recipient (as a Principal Investigator or Collaborator) in several competitive grants.