10 Chapter 10Figure 10.1 (a) Severe stenosis in the proximal RCA on CTA with high‐risk CT...Figure 10.2 (a) Post‐TAVR, a bioprosthetic valve is seen in aortic position,...Figure 10.3 (a) Early and (b) delayed contrast‐enhanced images of the left a...Figure 10.4 (a) and (c) diffuse LGE in the ventricles and atria. Classic fin...Figure 10.5 (a) Sinus venosus ASD with the right upper pulmonary vein draini...
11 Chapter 11Figure 11.1 Suggested stepwise strategy for long term anti‐ischemic drug the...Figure 11.2 Approach for the initial diagnostic management of patients with ...Figure 11.3 Main diagnostic pathways in symptomatic patients with suspected ...
12 Chapter 12Figure 12.1 Advantages and disadvantages or high sensitivity cardiac troponi...Figure 12.2 Algorithm for managing NSTE‐ACS patients and determining the tim...Figure 12.3 American and European guidelines on optimal DAPT duration in ACS...
13 Chapter 15Figure 15.1 Challenging angiographic assessment of disease severity. On the ...Figure 15.2 Provisional versus two‐stent technique. On the top (a) (RAO 20‐C...
14 Chapter 16Figure 16.1 Coronary bifurcation anatomy, flow characteristics and plaque di...Figure 16.2 Example of provisional strategy for distal left main stem trifur...Figure 16.3 Stepwise provisional SB stenting strategy. Panel (a) MV stenting...Figure 16.4 Proximal optimization technique. Panel (a) Large middle image – ...Figure 16.5 Two stent techniques. Panel (a) T stenting technique, Panel (b) ...
15 Chapter 17Figure 17.1 Heart Team decision‐making process in patients with multivessel ...
16 Chapter 18Figure 18.1 The basic features of a chronic total coronary occlusion (a and ...Figure 18.2 Bilateral contrast injection is essential for control of the wir...Figure 18.3 Proximal LAD occlusion with tapered entry (a). The tip shape for...Figure 18.4 Proximal RCA occlusion with two side branches (a). Perforation o...Figure 18.5 (a) Proximal RCA occlusion with a long intracoronary channel (sp...Figure 18.6 A proximal RCA occlusion with side branch and no visible entry (...Figure 18.7 Typical example of parallel wire approach: the first wire Gaia 2...Figure 18.8 Dual‐lumen catheter (DLC) application. Occlusion of the mid left...Figure 18.9 StingRay catheter application. Long occlusion of the left circum...Figure 18.10 The procedural steps of a retrograde approach. A proximal RCA o...
17 Chapter 19Figure 19.1 Schematic representation of common insertion sites of proximal a...
18 Chapter 20Figure 20.1 (a) Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images demonstrating good...Figure 20.2 (a) A FFR wire advanced beyond two sequential lesions (1 and 2) ...Figure 20.3 (a) 90° angulation in the vessel has set up a condition for wire...Figure 20.4 (a) Representation of a tortuous vessel. (b) After wiring of the...Figure 20.5 (a) A severely tortuous right coronary artery with severe lesion...
19 Chapter 21Figure 21.1 Morphologic pattern of restenosis across different stent generat...Figure 21.2 Algorithm for the treatment of drug‐eluting stent (DES) restenos...
20 Chapter 22Figure 22.1 Left Ventricular Support During High Risk PCI: LVEF and Lesion C...Figure 22.2 Cardiosense intra‐aortic balloon pump (IABP) console. (Device: C...Figure 22.3 Portable veno‐arterial extra‐corporeal membrane support with oxy...
21 Chapter 23Figure 23.1 Rotablator system with burrs, console, Rotalink system. (a) A si...Figure 23.2 RotaPRO™ system highlighting the power on/off button on the adva...Figure 23.3 RotaPRO™ Display Console: (a) digital display console includes t...Figure 23.4 Excimer coronary laser atherectomy (ECLA). (a) Mechanism of acti...Figure 23.5 Diamondback 360o Orbital Atherectomy System (OAS): (a) The OAS c...Figure 23.6 (a) Coronary Intravascular Lithoplasty (CIL) Balloon (Shockwave ...
22 Chapter 24Figure 24.1 Two examples of stent thrombosis. Panels a1, b1 show the variabl...Figure 24.2 The preparation of a thrombus aspiration catheter (Export Advanc...Figure 24.3 Keeping aspiration maintaining negative pressure in the Luer loc...Figure 24.4 Summary of the main technical characteristics of the manual thro...Figure 24.5 Ectatic coronary segments represent an anatomic scenario in whic...Figure 24.6 Case study.
23 Chapter 26Figure 26.1 Distal edge dissection by angiography and OCT. Left anterior des...Figure 26.2 Scaffold edge coronary hematoma with true “a” and false “b” lume...Figure 26.3 An example of type V perforation caused by a distal migration of...Figure 26.4 Type III cavity spilling (or type IV) LAD perforation to the rig...Figure 26.5 LAD and Dg PCI bifurcation with provisional technique. There was...Figure 26.6 (a) After right posterior descending artery recanalization with ...
24 Chapter 27Figure 27.1 Arterial perforation related to vascular access (a) Because of h...Figure 27.2 Relative benefit of VCD compared to manual compression. The rela...Figure 27.4 Acute common femoral artery closure related to VCD. (a) Because ...Figure 27.5 Classification of hematomas associated with percutaneous procedu...Figure 27.3 MANTA concept. A bovine collagen pad in gray seals the arterioto...
25 Chapter 28Figure 28.1 Pathophysiology of contrast associated‐acute kidney injury.Figure 28.2 Phases of Acute Kidney Injury. This figure illustrates progressi...Figure 28.3 Strategies to limit the volume of contrast media during coronary...
26 Chapter 29Figure 29.1 Radiologic dose is the concentration of energy received by a sma...Figure 29.2 Block diagram of an interventional fluoroscope showing key compo...Figure 29.3 Dry desquamation (poikiloderma) at 1 month in a patient receivin...Figure 29.4 Poor practice: an example of unnecessary irradiation of an opera...
27 Chapter 30Figure 30.1 Two key approaches towards cardiac regeneration: Inducing the pr...Figure 30.2 Cyclin A2 gene delivery induces cardiac regeneration in adult po...Figure 30.3 Cell‐based and cell‐free approach for cardiac regeneration: In c...Figure 30.4 Schema depicting the projected allogeneic therapeutic potential ...
28 Chapter 31Figure 31.1 Xience stent platform.The Xience V/Multi‐Link Vision has an open...Figure