Overview
- Step-by-step approach ensuring immediate access to information relevant to daily practice
- Tips, tricks and helpful illustrations offering “how to” guidance in the delicate field of percutaneous procedures for congenital heart disease
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This handbook is an ideal, up-to-date guide to the application of catheter-based interventions across the entire patient age range, from fetal life through to adulthood. Clear instruction is offered on techniques of vascular access, valve dilatation, angioplasty, stent implantation, defect closure, defect creation, pulmonary valve implantation and the hybrid approach, as well as miscellaneous other procedures. Topics are approached using a step-by-step format, ensuring that the reader will immediately be able to access information relevant to daily practice. Many explanatory figures and drawings are included in each chapter in order to clarify further how to plan, perform and evaluate diagnostic and interventional procedures in the field of congenital heart disease. Attention is drawn to important tips and tricks that will assist in achieving optimal outcomes and an appendix includes additional general equations and BSA and oxygen consumption charts.
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Table of contents (47 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General Issues
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Vascular Access
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Fetal Procedures
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cardiac Catheterization for Congenital Heart Disease
Book Subtitle: From Fetal Life to Adulthood
Editors: Gianfranco Butera, Massimo Chessa, Andreas Eicken, John Thomson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5681-7
Publisher: Springer Milano
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag Italia S.r.l., part of Springer Nature 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-88-470-5681-7Published: 15 October 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 786
Number of Illustrations: 132 b/w illustrations, 90 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Hematology