Offers step-by-step guidance on a wide range of procedures
Facilitates the planning, performance, and evaluation of diagnostic and interventional procedures
Includes a wealth of illustrative material
This atlas depicts and describes catheter-based interventions across the entire pediatric age range, from fetal life through to early adulthood, with the aim of providing an illustrated step-by-step guide that will help the reader to master these techniques and apply them in everyday practice. Clear instruction is offered on a wide range of procedures, including vascular access, fetal interventions, valve dilatation, angioplasty, stent implantation, defect closure, defect creation, valve implantation, hybrid approaches, and miscellaneous other procedures. The atlas complements the previously published handbook,
Cardiac Catheterization for Congenital Heart Disease
, by presenting a wealth of photographs, images, and drawings selected or designed to facilitate the planning, performance, and evaluation of diagnostic and interventional procedures in the field of congenital heart disease. It will assist in the safe, efficient performance of these procedures, in decision making, andin the recognition and treatment of complications.
"The book is meant for pediatric interventional cardiologists as well as specialists in adult congenital heart disease. ? This book is a good resource to learn various techniques involved in congenital heart disease interventions." (Aashish Gupta, Doody's Book Reviews, March 27, 2020)
