Cardiovascular Interventions in Clinical Practice

By Horst Sievert and Ron Waksman

In this pathbreaking volume, a multidisciplinary team of international experts puts catheter–based treatment techniques in context by exploring the pathobiology of specific diseases alongside a discussion of imaging tools and functional tests, and a comparison to alternative treatment approaches provided by cardiovascular surgery.

This comprehensive overview of interventional cardiology: 

• Explains treatments in depth, including imaging techniques and functional tests
• Serves as both a theoretical and practical guide to available treatment approaches that can be tailored for individual patients
• Provides the latest scientific data and new surgical alternatives
• Presents a practically oriented view of the most important interventional strategies
• Is written by a strong team of well-published and highly-regarded authors, the people whose breakthroughs in the clinic and the lab have made interventional cardiology the dynamic field it is today

Practitioners, fellows, and trainees who want a state-of-the-art guide to interventional cardiology can depend on this carefully crafted guide for authoritative information.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: Apr 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9781444316711

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