Percutaneous Interventions for Congenital Heart Disease PDF

Preface

This book is intended as a practical guide to the interventional treatment of congenital and structural heart disease for invasive cardiologists in the pediatric and adult fields. Where possible we have tried to emphasize practical aspects of the procedures including the important issues of indications and patient selection, potential pitfalls, and complications. Greater understanding, technical know-how, and wider availability of catheters, balloons, delivery systems, and devices have spread intervention into the realm of acquired valve disease, degenerative disease of the aorta, paravalve leakage, post-infarction ventricular septal defects, and closure of the left atrial appendage. Some of the procedures covered in the book are emerging techniques representing the forefront of interventional treatment today, and will not be practiced in every catheter laboratory.

We have collated contributions from a team of expert interventionists throughout the world in an effort to draw together, via the common link of catheter technology, an approach to congenital and structural heart disease which results in a new emerging specialist, the cardiovascular interventionist.

This book, by complementing practical experience, will be valuable as a practical procedural reference guide to catheter lab staff of all levels and disciplines.