Practical Manual of Interventional Cardiology

Annapoorna Kini serves as a Professor of Medicine, Director of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Director of Interventional Structural Heart Disease Program, and Director of Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, where she was named Zena and Michael A. Wiener Medicine Professor in 2016. She researches the field of percutaneous coronary intervention and transcatheter heart valve procedures. Dr. Samin K. Sharma is an interventional cardiologist performing the highest number of complex coronary interventions annually with the highest angioplasty success rate in New York State. Dr. Sharma is responsible for operational issues related to Cardiology at the main campus and in the Mount Sinai network. He also increases Mount Sinai's network of affiliated cardiologists in the tri-state area. As Dean for International Clinical Affiliations, Dr. Sharma serves as Mount Sinai’s clinical representative to develop relationships and affiliations worldwide.

• Part I Interventional Basics.- Basics of Radiation Safety.- Achieving Perfect Vascular Access.- The Perfect Shot: Angiographic Views for the Interventionalist.- Physiological Assessment During Interventional Procedures.- Antiplatelet and Antithrombotic Therapy in PCI.- Patient Selection and Appropriateness.- Guide Catheter Selection.- Guidewire Properties and Selection.- Assessment of Lesion Severity (Intravascular Ultrasound, Optical Coherence Tomography, NIRS, and Beyond).- Basics of Intracoronary Devices.- Hemodynamic Assessment: Right Heart Catheterization, Pulmonary Hypertension, Left-to-Right Shunt, and Constriction.- Hemodynamic Assessment of Aortic/Mitral Stenosis and Regurgitation.- Part II Coronary Intervention.- Vascular Closure Devices and Complications.- Basics of Intervention.- Difficult Stent Delivery.- Bifurcation Lesions.- Ostial Lesion Interventions.- Left Main Coronary Interventions.- Chronic Total Occlusions.- ACS: STEMI/Non-STEMI Intervention.- Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Interventions.- Calcific Lesion Interventions.- Coronary Complications of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions.- Radial Coronary Interventions.- Part III Special Procedures.- Advanced Hemodynamic Support.- Aortic Valve Interventions: Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty/Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.- Percutaneous Mitral Balloon Valvotomy.- Alcohol Septal Ablation.- Pericardiocentesis and Balloon Pericardiotomy.- Contrast-Induced Nephropathy Post Percutaneous Interventional Procedures.- Guide catheter selection in patients with TAVR.- Transcatheter Mitral valve repair.- In-Stent Restenosis (ISR).- Laser.- Rota.- IVBT.- Balloon.- Stent.