Transcatheter Closure of ASDs and PFOs: A Comprehensive Assessment - Hardcover

Ziyad Hijazi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0979016495 ISBN 13: 9780979016493

Publisher: Cardiotext Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

This volume covers everything you need to know about atrial communications; the pathology, anatomy, physiology, and natural history of treated and untreated patients; indications for intervention; surgical techniques currently used to close such defects; and transcatheter closure of these defects using approved and investigational devices. It also presents imaging techniques for guiding such procedures including transthoracic echo, transesophageal echo, intracardiac echo, and 2-D and 3-D technology--and using MRI to evaluate patients. Every device currently available, both approved and nonapproved, is discussed in detail along with technical analyses of how to close defects. In addition to addressing the association between PFOs and strokes and migraines, the contributors examine the status of all trials addressing transcatheter closure of ASDs and PFOs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cardiotext Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979016495
• ISBN 13: 9780979016493
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 459
• Editor: Ziyad Hijazi, Ted Feldman, Horst Sievert