Book description
Chronic total occlusions (CTO) are common, and found in approximately
one third of patients with significant coronary artery disease who
undergo angiography. Over the past 20 years, CTO lesions have
represented the most difficult anatomy for treatment - with lower
success rates and higher complication rates.
Chronic Total Occlusions provides interventionalists insight
into the world of CTOs with introductory chapters that describe the
pathology and indications of CTOs along with a review of clinical
trials. Imaging modalities including CT angiography, magnetic
navigation wire, and IVUS guided recanalization of CTO are also
introduced, together with information on new wires technology and
devices for CTOs.
With numerous illustrations of these devices, technologies, and
strategies to improve the CTO success rate, this clinical guide,
headed up by Ron Waksman, will prove to be the ideal companion for
interventional cardiologists and cardiac surgeons who are required to
perform angioplasty and coronary stenting.
Ron Waksman, MD, FACC. Associate Director,
Division of Cardiology / Director of Experimental Angioplasty &
New Technologies. Washington Hospital Center, 110 Irving Street, NW,
Suite 4B-1, Washington, DC 20010.
Dr. Waksman is currently the
Editor-in-Chief of Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine
and sits on the editorial boards of six other internationally
published journals. He has been Editor/Co-Editor of six books since
1996 and has authored 22 additional book chapters. Dr. Waksman has
also authored/co-authored over 250 published manuscripts and over 200
abstracts. He is also a Clinical Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at
Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
