Main description:

This book describes the different aspects of ischemic heart disease, one of the leading causes of death in industrialized countries, and whose growing prevalence represents a major challenge in terms of short- and long-term management and surveillance. This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of the state-of-the-art diagnostic imaging options, of disease risk stratification, selection of candidates for surgical intervention, percutaneous revascularitation, mechanical assist devices implantation. Recently, the morbidity and mortality of ischaemic heart disease have substantially improved because of the progress in therapeutic strategies, represented by the dramatic evolution of percutaneous coronary interventions, that are carefully described in the volume, together with all the other most recent treatment options: from medical therapy to conventional surgery, minimally invasive surgery, surgery of ischemic complications. The biggest challenge in the next years is, however, to reduce the incidence of coronary artery disease worldwide.

This highly illustrated, case oriented reference book is aimed at cardiology fellows in training, while also helpful to surgeons, cardiologists, imaging specialists, interventional cardiologists, as well as other clinicians and students involved in the diagnosis and treatment of ischemic disease.

Contents:

Foreword1. Surgical Anatomy of Coronary Arteries: Morphogenesis, Normal and Pathological Anatomy
2. Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis: a Multifactorial Process3. Prevention of Coronary Atherosclerosis4. History of Ischemic Heart Disease5. Pathophysiology of ischemic syndromes in coronary artery disease6. Epidemiology of Ischemic Heart Disease7. Nonatherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease8. Evaluation of Anginal Syndromes Using Standard Clinical Procedures9. Cardiovascular Biomarkers in Acute Myocardial Infarction 10. Electrocardiogram in Ischemic Heart Disease11. Exercise Testing and Its Role in Ischemic Heart Disease12. Echocardiography Evaluation of Ischemic Heart Disease13. Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Arteriography14. Computed Tomography Cardiac Imaging: Coronary Artery Disease and Ischemia15. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Myocardium, Coronary Arteries, and Anomalous Origin of Coronary Arteries16. Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction17. Indications for Myocardial Revascularitation18. Multidisciplinary Approach to Treatment of Ischemic Heart Disease: the Role of the Heart Team19. Pharmacological Treatment of Ischemic Heart Disease20. Percutaneous Myocardial Revascularitation21. Anomalous Aortic Origin of a Coronary Artery: Clinical and Surgical Perspective22. Surgical Myocardial Revascularitation with Cardiopulmonary Bypass23. How to expose all sides of the heart without the use of extra-corporeal circulation24. Graft Materials, Harvesting Methods and Treatment of Grafts in Surgical Myocardial Revascularitation25. Total arterial revascularization, techniques and results26. Management of patients with concomitant coronary and carotid artery disease27. Minimally Invasive Myocardial Revascularitation28. Redo CABG - History, Epidemiology, Surgical treatment and Outcomes29. Surgical Complications after Acute Myocardial Infarction: Ventricular Septal Defect and Free Wall Rupture30. Surgical Ventricular Remodeling in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy 31. Mitral Regurgitation from Ischemic Heart Disease 32. Cardiac Transplantation and Assistent Devices for Ischemic Heart Disease33. Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization34. Stem cells therapy for ischemic heart disease