In this book, the Belgian chess historian Henri Serruys traces back how Spassky became the first Soviet World Junior Chess Champion in Antwerp 1955. Endowed with recently discovered original material from the tournament organizer, the Belgian youth...More info...
Written by pioneers in the field of interventional cardiology, this new edition provides readers with the information and expert guidance needed to perform safe and effective transcatheter aortic valve implantation/replacement (TAVI/TAVR)....More info...
This edited collection examines the formation of urban networks and role of gateways in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern world. In the past, gateway cities were merely perceived as transport points, only relevant to maritime shipping. T...More info...
The prevalence of coronary artery disease is increasing due to rising rates of obesity and the fact that a greater number of people are living longer. Coronary Atherosclerosis: Current Management and Treatment addresses this leading cause o...More info...
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 an...More info...
Surgeons refer to this classic text again and again, partly because of the clarity of its innovative format, so useful and popular that it has been copied by others. This technical manual, now in its fourth edition, profiles all of the commercially a...More info...
This edited collection examines the formation of urban networks and role of gateways in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern world. In the past, gateway cities were merely perceived as transport points, only relevant to maritime shipping. T...More info...
While all interventional cardiologists have access to pharmacopeial texts and databases and are aware of the growing number of pharmacological agents in the armamentarium, questions arise as to the ideal agent or combination of agents in differing pa...More info...
Coronary stenting is the most commonly used method of myocardial revascularization, with approximately 2 million stents implanted in 2004 throughout the world. The development of drug eluting stents has resulted in very low rates of repeat interventi...More info...
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Providing the background information behind clinical practice, with in-depth peer-reviewed articles and broad coverage of the field, The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine and its digital counterpart, ESC CardioMed, are invaluable resources for...More info...
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 an...More info...
Leading interventional cardiologists, including Patrick Serruys, provide the gold-standard reference on the treatment of restenosis for interventional cardiologists. Dr. Serruys, who pioneered the use of drug-eluting stents, and other pioneers in...More info...
Urgent Interventional Therapies focuses on the urgent interventional procedures performed in the most serious and critical cases of cardiovascular and peripheral artery diseases, where immediate specialist care is required, such as cardiac arrest, ac...More info...
Over the past twenty years, technical advances in coronary arteriography have contributed to our understanding of the pathophysiologic aspects and natural history of coronary artery disease. Probably more than 700. 000 coronary arterio grams are per...More info...
The prevalence of coronary artery disease is increasing due to rising rates of obesity and the fact that a greater number of people are living longer. Coronary Atherosclerosis: Current Management and Treatment addresses this leading cause o...More info...
From the Foreword by Eric J. Topol In the past five years, interventional cardiology has entered a new era of evaluating percutaneous transcatheter technologies to treat coronary artery disease and prevent restenosis. Cardiologist...More info...
In this fourth book in the series on quantitative coronary arteriography (QCA) with the earlier three volumes published in 1986, 1988 and 1991, the latest developments in this exciting field are covered. Both the methodolog ical and clinical applica...More info...
This is the fifth volume in this series on quantitative coronary arteriography (QCA) published over the last nine years. Research and applications in this exciting, field are covered in a total of 26 chapters by world renowned experts. This book is s...More info...
In June 1989, a third conference concentrating on the progress in quantita tive coronary angiography and related techniques was held in Rotterdam, again very successful as the two preceding events in 1985 and 1987. Tech nical as well as clinical as...More info...
Quantitative coronary angiography has become an invaluable tool for the interventional cardiologist, providing objective and reproducible measurements of coronary artery dimensions, which can be used to study progression or regression of coronary...More info...
Since the introduction of coronary angioplasty in 1977, this procedure has gained a steadily increasing position in the treatment of coronary artery obstmction. From the available evidence it can be estimated, that this thera peutic tool will get ev...More info...
There are few techniques that have influenced therapeutic strategies in modem cardiology to a similar extent as coronary arteriography. Bypass surgery as well as transluminal coronary angioplasty would not have been possible without coronary angiogra...More info...
(Pub. Date: 02-Oct-2011, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., ISBN-13: 9781461380122)
Energy recoil detection using high-energy heavy ions is unique in its ability to provide quantitative profiles of light and medium mass elements....More info...
In recent years there has been an increasing interest in quantitative analysis of coronary cineangiograms and already for a longer time of left ventricular cin eangiograms. The needfor quantitationofcoronary arterialdimensions has been stimulated by...More info...
Obstruction of coronary blood flow and the resultant consequences are the center stage pathophysiologic events in cardiology today. The speculations of Jenner, Burns, Heberdin, McKenzie, Prinzmetal and many others had until now been left to observati...More info...
Written by pioneers in the field of interventional cardiology, this critical text provides readers with the information and expert guidance needed to perform safe and effective transcatheter aortic valve implantations (TAVI). The book is supplemen...More info...
A. John Camm, Thomas F. Lüscher, Patrick W. Serruys
Series: The European Society of Cardiology
(Pub. Date: 27-Aug-2009, Hardback, Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199566990)
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The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine is a teaching text that contains the knowledge base needed by every general cardiologist and specialist cardiologist as a background to their specialty interest. The textbook content is based on the Core Cu...More info...
Henricus J. Duckers, Elizabeth G. Nabel, Patrick W. Serruys
Series: Contemporary Cardiology
(Pub. Date: 27-Aug-2007, Hardback, Publisher: Humana Press Inc., ISBN-13: 9781588294913)
Duckers (Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands) et al. compile 27 chapters that explore the process of restenosis in this volume meant for practicing interventional cardiologists and vascular biologists, as well as medical s...More info...
Since publication of the First Edition, advances in the diagnosis and prevention and treatment strategies of the vulnerable plaque have necessitated this greatly expanded second edition. With several new chapters covering mainly diagnostic and treatm...More info...
While all interventional cardiologists have access to pharmacopeial texts and databases and are aware of the growing number of pharmacological agents in the armamentarium, questions arise as to the ideal agent or combination of agents in differing pa...More info...
Given that for centuries, the standard tool to understand diseases in tissues was the microscope and that its major limitation was that only excised tissue could be used, recent technology now permits the examination of diseased tissue in vivo. Optic...More info...
Coronary stenting is the most commonly used method of myocardial revascularization, with approximately 2 million stents implanted in 2004 throughout the world. The development of drug eluting stents has resulted in very low rates of repeat interventi...More info...
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The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine is the first ever cardiovascular textbook to be published in partnership with an international society and is set to become the new benchmark for cardiologists in Europe and beyond.Fo...More info...
Over the past few years, the focus in interventional cardiology research has centered on reducing restenosis with the use of antiproliferative pharmacological agents. The use of these drugs, hitherto, has failed, most probably because of low active d...More info...
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Recently, sirolimus-eluting stents implantation has been shown to decrease restenosis markedly in selected patients. Nonetheless, the effects of SES implantation in complex, unselected patients, such as those commonly treated in daily practice (the...More info...
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Although most in the field would agree that the vulnerable plaque is an important topic, there is still considerable disagreement over the precise meaning of this term and the related terms high-risk plaque and thrombosis-prone plaque. Until now very...More info...
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Though still in its infancy, the revascularization of damaged cardiac cells with transplanted cells is currently being transformed from a research concept to a clinical tool. Drawing on information from experimental studies and first clinical trials,...More info...
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Morrison (medicine and radiology, U. of Arizona) and colleagues provide a cardiac surgeons and interventionalists perspectives on such risky procedures as coronary angioplasty, and address the issue of medically refractory patients. Contributors to...More info...
Surgeons refer to this classic text again and again, partly because of the clarity of its innovative format, so useful and popular that it has been copied by others. This technical manual, now in its fourth edition, profiles all of the commercially a...More info...
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The interventional cardiologist has to tackle a diverse and complex range of coronary lesions. For this reason, the experts who compiled this volume contribute the best practices for overcoming plaque and thrombus in the coronary arteries. From simpl...More info...
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Vascular brachytherapy for the prevention of restenosis is a new frontier in the field of interventional cardiology, as well as in radiation oncology, with use of radiation therapy for benign diseases. Given the advances in this field since publicati...More info...
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This review of the available literature on coronary stenting identifies the indication for stent implantation and the use of adjunctive therapies which are supported by clinical evidence. The authors, both professors in the Netherlands, explain why...More info...
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Brings you important information on clinical applications, techniques and procedures in the field of interventional cardiology. This book is illustrated with two-colour line drawings, tables and algorithms to make the information accessible at a gla...More info...
(Pub. Date: 20-Feb-1998, Hardback, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781853176104)
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This title will be of interest to interventional cardiologists, medical physicists and biologists working in the field of cardiovascular radiation therapy for the prevention of restenosis. Bringing the medical community the state of the art in new de...More info...
