Cardiovascular Intervention: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease

Cover Inside front cover Cardiovascular Intervention: A Companion to BRAUNWALD’S HEART DISEASE Copyright Dedication Contributors Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Contents Section I Interventional cardiology Section II Coronary artery intervention Section III Peripheral artery intervention Section IV Cerebrovascular intervention Section V Venous intervention Section VI Structural heart intervention Section VII Congenital heart disease Video contents Braunwald's heart disease family of books 1 1 The birth of interventional cardiology The innovator of angioplasty The first peripheral arterial angioplasty The development of coronary angioplasty Coronary angioplasty then and now Acute angioplasty failure Mechanism of balloon angioplasty Dissemination of coronary angioplasty Andreas Grüntzig, the man Development of interventional cardiology and minimally invasive surgery Acknowledgment References 2 2 Guidelines and appropriateness criteria for interventional cardiology Introduction