Percutaneous Interventions for Congenital Heart Disease

This handbookiswritten for pediatric cardiologists who want to specialize in interventional cardiology and really need to know how to do procedures step by step. It is also written for adult cardiologists who want to learn more than just "shooting for the coronaries". Therefore topics are all kind of interventions in congenital heart disease and the new field of "Structural heart disease". This includes acquired valvular heart disease, post-myocardial infarction ventricular septal defects, PFO closure, closure of the left atrial appendage and paravalvular leak closure but also techniques to treat diseases of the aorta. The focus is on devices and techniques which are approved not necessarily in all but at least in some countries.The combination of interventions in congenital and acquired heart disease is driven by the experience that many techniques are similar or complement each other. Techniques and experience in one field helps to solve problems in the other field. This book will help to overcome barriers between pediatric and adult cardiologists. It is time for a new specialist, the cardiovascular interventionalist.Sievert, Horst is the author of 'Percutaneous Interventions for Congenital Heart Disease ', published 2007 under ISBN 9781841845562 and ISBN 1841845566.