Main description:

The second edition of this handbook is an up-to-date guide to the application of catheter-based interventions across the entire age range of congenital heart disease patients, from fetal life through to adulthood.

It considers the changes and improvements that have occurred during the last few years in terms of new procedures, new tools and devices (in particular in the field of valves), new imaging and pre-procedural strategies, such as 3D-printing, 3D- rotational angiography and fusion imaging. It provides readers with clear instructions on techniques for vascular access, valve dilatation, angioplasty, stent implantation, defect closure, defect creation, pulmonary valve implantation and on the hybrid approach, as well as on various other procedures.

As in the first edition, topics are approached using a step-by-step format, ensuring that readers can immediately access the information relevant to their daily practice. Numerous explanatory figures and drawings are included in each chapter in order to further clarify how to plan, perform and evaluate diagnostic and interventional procedures in the field of congenital heart disease. It also highlights important tips and tricks that will assist health operators in achieving optimal outcomes, and includes an appendix with additional general equations and BSA, and oxygen consumption charts.

This practical guide will be a valuable resource for surgeons and cardiologists in their daily clinical practice.

Contents:

Foreword.- Preface.- I General.- 1 Informed Consent.- 2 Anesthesiologist Patient's Management.- 3 Anticoagulation and Antibiotics.- 4 Angiography:Basics and Contrast Media.- 5 Angiography: Standard Projections/ Radiation Exposure.- 6 Catheters and Wires.- 7 Balloons.- 8 Stents.- 9 VALVES.- 10 "ADULT" TOOLS RELEVANT FOR CONGENITAL HEART DISESE.- 11 Hemodynamic Assessment: Pressures, Flow,

Resistances and Vasoreactive Testing.- 12 Psychological Aspects.- II Vascular Access.- 13 Usual Access.- 14 Unusual Access.- 15 Hemostasis.- 16 Access Complications and Management.- 17 Trans-septal "Access".- 18 HYBRID ACCESSES (apical-carotid-other).- III Fetal Procedures.- 19 Fetal Interventions.- IV Step-by-step Procedures: Valve DilatatioN.- 20 Aortic Valvular Stenosis.- 21 Pulmonary Valvular Stenosis.- 22 Pulmonary Atresia/ IVS.- 23 Mitral Valve Dilatation.- V Step-by-step procedures: Vessel Treatment.- 24 Pulmonary Artery Branches.- 25 Aortic Coarctation.- 26 MID-AORTIC SYNDROME TREATMENT PORRAS.- 27 Reopening of Peripheral and Central Arteries and VeinS.- 28 PDA Stenting in Duct-dependent Pulmonary Circulation.- 29 PDA Stenting in Duct-dependent Systemic Circulation.- VI Step-by-step Procedures: Closing or Creating a Defect.- 30 Atrial Septal Defect Closure.- 31 PFO CLOSURE.- 32 Fontan Fenestrations Closure.- 33 Ventricular Septal Defect.- 34 Patent Ductus Arteriosus Closure.- 35 PDA CLOSURE IN PREMIES A FRAISSE.- 36 Closure of Coronary Arterial Fistulas.- 37 Vessel Embolization.- 38 Residual Post-surgical Defects.- 39 Closure of ASD in Special Situations: Elderly, PA-IVS .- 40 Creating an Interatrial Communication.- 41 SINUS VENOSUS ASD TRANSCATHETER TREATMENT.- VII Step-by-step Procedures: Valve Implantation.- 42 Melody Valve Implantation in Pulmonary Position.- 43 Sapien Valve Implantation in Pulmonary PosiOion.- 44 Percutaneous Tricuspid Valve Implantation.- 45 NEW VALVES AND TOOLS (ALTERA DEVICE, VENOUS VALVE, OTHER).- 46 APPROACHES TO LARGE OR COMPLEX RVOT.- VIII Step-by-step Procedures: Principles of Hybrid Approach.- 47 Hybrid Approach in Hypoplastic left heart syndrome.- 48 Hybrid Approach: Defect Closure.- 49 Hybrid Approach: Stent Implantation.- IX Step-by-step Procedures: Miscellanea.- 50 Retrieval Techniques.- 51 Pericardiocentesis.- 52 Endomyocardial Biopsies.-

53 Pre-Glenn and Pre-Fontan Evaluations.- 54 Hemodynamics in Pericardial and Myocardial Diseases.- 55 Imaging and Treating Coronary Arteries in Children.- 56 Transcatheter treatments in PA-VSD-MAPCAs.- 57 Transcatheter treatments RVOT stenting in infancy.- X Imaging techniques.- 58 Rotational angiography: HOW TO DO IT.- 59 Intracardiac echo.- 60 3D Echo .- 61 3D Mapping - live integration and overlay of 3D data from MRI and CT for improved guidance of interventional cardiac therapy.- 62 3D PRINTING RELEVANT TO PLAN A PROCEDURE.- 63 Quality Improvement in the cath lab.- X: Appendix Hemodynamic formulae, calculations and charts