1st Edition

Tricuspid Valve Interventions From Fundamentals to Cutting-Edge Percutaneous Treatments

240 Pages 204 Color & 43 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation is a common valvular pathology, estimated to affect 1.6 million people in the USA alone. Even though guidelines recommend either medical therapy or surgical treatment, the misconception of the disorder as a benign disease - along with the high mortality rates of surgical intervention - has led to undertreatment of this disease and description of it as a “forgotten”... Read more

1. Introduction: Conquering Tricuspid Insufficiency, From Diagnosis to Therapy 2.The Tricuspid Valve: Anatomy, Nomenclature, and Pathology 3.Epidemiology of Tricuspid Valve Disease: a growing burden 4. Pathophysiology of the Tricuspid Valve and the Right Heart Disease 5.Clinical Pathways and Clinical Presentation 6.Etiology of Tricuspid Valve Disease: Not One Disease 7.Echocardiography in the management of tricuspid valve disease - evaluation, screening selection and procedural planning 8. Early Diagnosis and Monitoring of Tricuspid Regurgitation 9.Patient selection and risk stratification for valve intervention/surgery 10. Cardiac Computed Tomography in the Management of Tricuspid Valve Disease 11. Right Heart catheterization: A Mandatory complement to non-invasive imaging 12.  Medical Management of Tricuspid Valve Disease 13. Surgical Treatment for Tricuspid Valve Disease 14. The Surgical Correction of Tricuspid Valve Disease 15.  Introduction to Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Intervention 16.  Landscape of Transcatheter Treatment options and Device Selection 17. Transcatheter Edge-to-edge Repair 18.Transcatheter annular approaches for tricuspid regurgitation 19.  Tricuspid Valve Intervention: Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve-in-Valve and Valve-in-Ring 20.  Intraprocedural imaging guidance including fluoroscopy, TEE, ICE, and fusion for transcatheter tricuspid valve interventions 21. Heterotopic Caval Valve Implantation 22.Tricuspid Valve Interventions: From Fundamentals to Cutting edge Percutaneous Treatments 23.  Complications of Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement and Management Strategies 24. Emerging Technologies 25.  Closing Remarks and Future Prespectives: A Long Journey, and Still a Road Ahead

Biography

Professor Francesco Maisano, MD, Chair and Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery and Director of the Valve Clinic, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Professor Fabien Praz, MD, Inselspital, Universitätsspital Bern, and Universitätsklinik für Kardiologie, Bern, Switzerland.

Professor Marianna Adamo is an Interventional Cardiologist at University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Roberto M Lang, MD, A.J. Carlson Professor of Medicine and Professor of Radiology, University of Chicago, IL, USA.

Martin B Leon, MD, Director of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy, New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.

Yoshinobu Onuma is Professor in Interventional Cardiology and Medical Director of CORRIB (Corelab research centre for advanced imaging and Core Laboratory), University of Galway, Galway, County Galway, Ireland.

Tsung-Ying Tsai is a clinical scientist at Boston Scientific, Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Patrick W. Serruys, MD, PhD, eFESC, FACC, Established Professor of Interventional Medicine and Innovation at NUI Galway; Senior consultant, CORRIB Research Centre for Advanced Imaging and Core Laboratory; College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland.