1. Introduction to Cardiac Catheterization
Richard A. Lange MD, Steven R. Bailey MD, and L. David Hillis MD

2. Setting Up a Catheterization Laboratory and Equipment Considerations
John W. Hirshfeld, Jr., MD

3. Radiation Safety Principles in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Thomas M. Bashore, MD

4. Contrast Agents
Michael C. Reed MD and Hitinder S. Gurm MD

5. Patient Selection, Preparation, Risks and Informed Consent
David O. Williams MD and J. Dawn Abbott MD

6. Conscious Sedation (Local Anesthetics, Sedatives, and Reversing Agents)
Steven P. Dunn PharmD BCPS

7. Vasopressors, Vasodilators, and Antithrombotics in the Catheterization Laboratory
Tracy E. Macaulay, PharmD and David J. Moliterno, MD

8. Vascular Access and Closure
Zoltan G. Turi, M.D.

9. Right Heart Catheterization (Cardiac Output, Vascular Resistance, Shunt Detection and Quantification)
Franz Eberli, MD

10. Pulmonary Hypertension – Hemodynamic Assessment and Response to Vasodilators
Myung H. Park, MD and Vallerie V. McLaughlin, MD

11. Valvular Heart Disease—Measurement of Valve Orifice Area and Quantification of Regurgitation
Blase A. Carabello MD

12. Hemodynamic Assessment for Restriction, Constriction, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, and Cardiac Tamponade
Paul Sorajja MD

13. Endomyocardial Biopsy—Indications and Procedures
Gregg F. Rosner MD, Garrick C. Stewart MD, and Kenneth L. Baughman MD

14. Pericardiocentesis
Carl L. Tommaso MD

15. Catheterization of the Cardiac Venous System
John C. Gurley MD

16. Coronary Arterial Anatomy: Normal, Variants, and Well-Described Collaterals
John P. Erwin MD and Gregory J. Dehmer MD

17. Diagnostic Angiographic Catheters: Coronary and Vascular
Ryan Berg, MD and Michael Lim, MD

18. Coronary Imaging: Angiography, CTA, MRA
Joel A. Garcia MD and John D. Carroll MD

19. Cardiac Catheterization for Pediatric Patients
Albert P. Rocchini, MD

20. Cardiac Catheterization for the Adult with Complex Congenital Heart Disease
John F. Rhodes, Jr, M.D. and †Jorge R. Alegria, M.D.

21. Ventriculography and Aortography
José G. Díez MD FACC FSCAI and James M. Wilson MD FACC

22. Pulmonary Angiography
Syed Sohail Ali MD and P. Michael Grossman MD

23. Transseptal Catheterization
Zoltan G. Turi, M.D.

24. Mesenteric and Renal Angiography
Steven J. Filby MD, Mehdi H. Shishehbor DO MPH, and Leslie Cho MD

25. Peripheral Arterial Angiography
Ivan P. Casserly MD

26. Carotid and Cerebral Angiography
Andrei Pop, M.D. and Robert D. Safian, M.D.

27. Application of Intracoronary Physiology: Use of Pressure and Flow Measurements in Clinical Practice
Olivier Muller MD PhD and Bernard De Bruyne MD PhD

28. Intravascular Ultrasound and Virtual Histology
Adriano Caixeta MD, Akiko Maehara MD, Gary S. Mintz MD

29. Optical Coherence Tomography
E. Regar, N. Gonzalo, G. Van Soest, P.W. Serruys

30. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention - General Principles
Jack P. Chen MD, Dongming Hou MD PhD, Lakshmana Pendyala MD, Spencer B. King III MD

31. Guiding Catheters and Wires
David WM Muller MBBS, MD, FRACP, FACC

32. Coronary Artery Stenting
Stéphane Cook MD and Stephan Windecker MD

33. Primary PCI in ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Sean P. Javaheri, DO and James E. Tcheng, MD

34. Cardiogenic Shock
Mark Ricciardi, M.D

35. A Clinical Rationale and Strategy for Chronic Total Coronary Occlusion Revascularization: Innovative Solutions to an Old Problem
Colin M. Barker, MD and David E. Kandzari, MD

36. Saphenous Vein Graft PCI
Claudia P. Hochberg MD and Joseph P. Carrozza, Jr. MD

37. Emboli Protection Devices, Atherectomy, Thrombus Aspiration Devices
Fernando Cura MD PhD

38. Complications of PCI: Stent Loss, Coronary Perforation and Aortic Dissection
Amir-Ali Fassa, MD and Marco Roffi, MD

39. Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Counterpulsation, Percutaneous Left Ventricular Support
Wendell Ellis M.D., Troy Weirick M.D., Richard W. Smalling M.D., Ph.D.

40. Intracardiac Echocardiography
Dennis W. den Uijl MD, Laurens F. Tops MD, Nico R. van de Veire MD PhD, and Jeroen J. Bax MD PhD

41. TEE to Guide Interventional Cardiac Procedures in the Catheterization Laboratory Matthias Greutmann MD, Melitta Mezody MD, and Eric Horlick MD

42. Percutaneous Therapy for Aortic Valve Disease
Peter Wenaweser MD, Lutz Buellesfeld MD, and Eberhard Grube MD

43. Percutaneous Therapies for Mitral Valve Disease
Ryan D. Christofferson, Patrick L. Whitlow, E. Murat Tuzcu, Samir R. Kapadia

44. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Matthew C. Becker MD, Gus Theodos MD, Samir Kapadia, and E. Murat Tuzcu MD

45. Atrial Appendage Exclusion
David R. Holmes Jr. MD and Rebecca Fountain RN

46. Percutaneous Closure of Atrial Septal Defect and Patent Foramen Ovale
Yves Laurent Bayard, Andreas Wahl, Bernhard Meier

47. Pediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiac Interventions
Sawsan M. Awad MD, Qi-Ling Cao MD, and Ziyad M. Hijazi MD MPH

48. Embolization for Fistulas and AVMs
Nicholas Kipshidze, MD, PhD; Robert Rosen, MD; and Irakli Gogorishvili, MD

49. Lower and Upper Extremity Intervention
Tahir Mohamed MD and Mark Robbins MD

50. Renal and Mesenteric Artery Interventions
John H. Rundback MD and Robert Lookstein MD

51. Carotid and Vertebral Artery Interventions
Marco Roffi, MD

52. Intracranial Stenosis and Acute Stroke Interventions
Alex Abou-Chebl, MD

53. Training Program Guidelines, Case Numbers, and Maintenance of Certification
Gregory W. Barsness, MD, FACC and Charanjit S. Rihal, MD, FACC

54. Organizing Prehospital and Hospital Systems of Care for STEMI
Michael D. Miedema MD, David M. Larson MD, and Timothy D. Henry MD

Debabrata Mukherjee M.D.
Professor and Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine and Vice-Chairman of Internal Medicine at Texas Tech University.

Eric R. Bates M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.

Marco Roffi M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Interventional Cardiology Unit at the University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland.

David J. Moliterno, M.D.
Professor and Vice-Chair of Internal Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of Cardiovascular Services at the University of Kentucky.

',,,this is a highly useful textbook on most aspects of transcatheter therapy. It should be available to all interventional cardiologists.' - Ulrich Sigwart, MD, FACC, EFESC, FRCP, Professor Emeritus, University of Geneva, The Brazilian Archives in Cardiology