Functionalised Cardiovascular Stents

Functionalised Cardiovascular Stents

Author: Gerard Wall

Publisher: Woodhead Publishing

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0081004982

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Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of mortality in the western world and about half of these deaths are caused by coronary artery disease. One of the most commonly used interventions to treat arterial blockages is to deploy an arterial stent to keep the vessel open. Traditionally, some cardiovascular stents have been associated with serious side-effects, such as thrombosis. This book describes the fundamentals of cardiovascular stents, technologies to functionalize their surfaces and the market status of these important implants. The chapters provide specific focus on the production and evolution of cardiovascular stents, providing essential knowledge for researchers on advances in the field and knowledge of how cardiovascular stents are currently being "functionalized" in order to improve their biocompatibility and minimize negative outcomes in vivo. - Provides a specific focus on cardiovascular stents - Includes a range of topics covering the fundamentals, surface modification and biofunctionalization - Provides essential knowledge for researchers on advances in the field


Bioresorbable Scaffolds

Bioresorbable Scaffolds

Author: Yoshinobu Onuma

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-10-02

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 1498779778

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This book focuses on the coronary bioresorbable scaffold, a new interventional treatment for coronary artery disease, differentiated from a permanent metallic stent. The book provides an overview of the technology including non-clinical studies and clinical evidences in order to help clinicians understand the appropriate application of the technology and the optimal techniques of implantation. It covers the basics of bioresorbable scaffolds; bench test results; preclinical studies; clinical evidences; and tips and tricks of implantation.


Coronary Stenting: A Companion to Topol's Textbook of Interventional Cardiology E-Book

Coronary Stenting: A Companion to Topol's Textbook of Interventional Cardiology E-Book

Author: Matthew J. Price

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2013-08-05

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1455737283

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Make optimal use of the latest coronary stenting techniques and adjunctive devices with well-rounded guidance from Coronary Stenting, a companion volume to Dr. Topol's Textbook of Interventional Cardiology. This comprehensive, up-to-date interventional cardiology book keeps you abreast of the latest trial data on efficacy and safety as well as cutting-edge clinical applications in coronary stenting. - Achieve optimal outcomes and minimize complications with expert guidance from the foremost teachers and writers in the field of interventional cardiology. - Implement the latest knowledge on cutting-edge topics such as drug-eluting stent design; appropriate interpretation of randomized clinical trials and comparative effectiveness studies of coronary stents; the use of fractional flow reserve, intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography to optimize lesion selection and stent implantation; anterograde and retrograde approaches to chronic total occlusions; and percutaneous revascularization of diabetics and patients with left main or multivessel disease. - Quickly and easily find the coronary stenting information you need thanks to highly templated chapters and high-quality full-color illustrations that incorporate the latest clinical trial data into recommendations for proper patient and device selection.


New Frontiers in Medical Device Technology

New Frontiers in Medical Device Technology

Author: Arye Rosen

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13:

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New Frontiers in Medical Device Technology offers the engineering, medical, and business communities an up-to-date report on current and emerging medical technologies. This timely and authoritative book brings together a core of experts who provide comprehensive coverage of new medical device technologies and focuses on the link between the engineering and medical aspects. Relevant engineering principles are reviewed before focusing on the state-of-the-art technologies and their applications. For engineers, this book will provide knowledge of the needs, applications, and biological effects of medical devices and thus point the way toward new opportunities for engineering solutions. Members of the medical community will gain an understanding of the engineering concepts applied to medical devices and their most recent applications. Business and legal professionals will acquire a better understanding of medical technology and its enormous market potential.


Technical Aspects of Modern Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Technical Aspects of Modern Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Author: Mario Gaudino

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2020-11-08

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 0128203498

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Coronary surgery encompasses two thirds of all adult cardiac surgery cases. With the endless pursuit of better outcomes, modern coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) has become technically more complex in ways that are well beyond the training of the average cardiac surgeon. The old concept of "one-technique-fits-all" has been abandoned in favour of a specialized approach tailored to the individual patient. In fact, in recent years, there is a growing movement towards establishing coronary surgery as a super-specialization of cardiac surgery. Technical Aspects of Modern Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery aims to expand on both the basics and complexities of the technical aspects of coronary surgery. It serves as an up to date resource that illustrates and details the advancement and techniques in this field which may soon become a separate super-specialty. With a particular emphasis on illustrations, the book will be an essential reference book for both established surgeons that have no experience in advanced CABG, and the new generation of CABG surgeons. - A complete and concise resource on all aspects of coronary surgery - In-depth illustrative review of various coronary techniques - Covers both current recommendations and well-established practices in the field


Textbook of Catheter-Based Cardiovascular Interventions

Textbook of Catheter-Based Cardiovascular Interventions

Author: Peter Lanzer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-04-30

Total Pages: 1887

ISBN-13: 331955994X

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This book is a fully updated and revised second edition of a highly successful text in which a new concept of knowledge mining, based on explication and transfer of interventional knowledge of experts, has been implemented. The dedicated training program that is set out will serve the needs of all interventional operators, whether cardiologists, vascular surgeons, vascular specialists, or radiologists, enabling them to achieve a consistent expert level across the entire broad spectrum of catheter-based interventions. Operator skills – and in particular decision-making and strategic skills – are the most critical factors for the outcome of catheter-based cardiovascular interventions. Currently, such skills are commonly developed by the empirical trial and error method only. The explicit teaching, training, and learning approach adopted in this book permits the rapid transfer of interventional knowledge and enables individual operators to negotiate steep learning curves and acquire complex skills in a highly efficient manner. It will thereby offer invaluable assistance in meeting successfully the challenges of modern cardiovascular care.


Intracoronary Ultrasound

Intracoronary Ultrasound

Author: Gary S. Mintz

Publisher: CRC PressI Llc

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9781841840475

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Distilling more than ten years of experience with intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), Intracoronary Ultrasound summarizes Dr Mintz's own experiences as well as published and unpublished observations of others in the field. The text incorporates angiographic and uses pathologic observations to fill in the gaps in knowledge of coronary artery disease as assessed by IVUS alone. A major effort went into selecting and presenting figures for their illustrative value. In most cases each IVUS figure includes a linear sequence of equidistantly-spaced image slices that illustrates the full length morphology of the lesion and/or the pullback of the transducer through the lesion. It provides the reader with an excellent guide for revision, confirming diagnoses, and teaching.


Drug-Eluting Stents

Drug-Eluting Stents

Author: Christopher J. White

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2005-06-30

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780203301197

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The cure for restenosis has been the Holy Grail of interventional cardiology since the advent of coronary angioplasty in the late 1970s. The development of stents improved the durability of angioplasty, but in-stent restenosis was a major problem for patients and the physicians. To deliver drugs locally on stents that prevent restenosis is a revolutionary advance. Percutaneous revascularization technology has leaped forward, dramatically altering clinical practices, with what may be the single most important advance in the history of cardiology. There are new delivery platforms and new drugs currently being tested. Despite the continuing advancement, there was a need to collate in a single text, information on drug eluting stents for coronary disease. Chris White and colleagues have put together a logically organized text that progresses from theory to practice, and addresses pharmacologic, technical and strategic issues as they relate to the placement of coronary drug-eluting stents.


Multi-Energy CT: The New Frontier in Imaging, An Issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America

Multi-Energy CT: The New Frontier in Imaging, An Issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America

Author: Savvas Nicolaou

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2018-06-30

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0323610714

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This issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America focuses on Multi-Energy CT: The New Frontier in Imaging, and is edited by Drs. Savvas Nicolaou and Mohammed F. Mohammed. Articles will include: Dual Energy CT: Image Acquisition, Processing and Workflow; Dual Energy CT: Dose Reduction, Contrast Load Reduction and Series Reduction in DECT; Dual Energy CT in Cardiothoracic Vascular Imaging; Advanced Musculoskeletal Applications with Dual Energy CT; Dual Energy CT of the Acute Abdomen; The Role of Dual Energy CT in Assessment of Abdominal Oncology; Future Developments in Dual Energy CT; Strategies to Improve Image Quality on DECT; Pearls, pitfalls and problems in DECT imaging of the body; Dual Energy CT – Technology and Challenges; The Role of Dual Energy CT in Thoracic Oncology; and more!


Textbook of Cardiovascular Intervention

Textbook of Cardiovascular Intervention

Author: Craig A. Thompson

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-19

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 1447145283

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​The field of interventional cardiology and interventional vascular medicine now comprises the dominant diagnostic and therapeutic field within cardiovascular medicine, and continues to grow in terms of patients managed and physicians trained. The Textbook of Cardiovascular Intervention is intended to provide a modern, comprehensive and practical text on interventional cardiology for the current, rapidly evolving practice environment. It is written by a group of worldwide experts in the field and will appeal to fellows, residents and physicians in cardiology, interventional cardiology, cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, vascular and endovascular medicine, neurointerventional radiology and surgery, emergency medicine and intensive care.