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Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Tips and Tricks to Avoid Failure
Author(s): Patrick W. Serruys (Editor), Alain Cribier (Editor), John G. Webb (Editor)
- Publisher: CRC Press
- Publication Date: November 24, 2009
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 324 pages
- ISBN-10: 1841846899
- ISBN-13: 9781841846897
Book Description
Written by pioneers in the field of interventional cardiology, this critical text provides readers with the information and expert guidance needed to perform safe and effective transcatheter aortic valve implantations (TAVI). The book is supplemented by visual aids, including more than 200 color illustrations and downloadable resources with bonus footage that detail each preprocedural, intraprocedural, and postprocedural step of TAVI―enabling readers to utilize TAVI devices correctly to improve patient results. The book focuses on the CoreValve and Edwards devices, but also provides practical, basic information applicable to any transcatheter aortic valve device.
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About the Author
Patrick W. Serruys is Professor of Medicine, Cardiologist and Chair in Interventional Cardiology, Erasmus University and Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Nicolo Piazza is Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Alain Cribier is Head, Department of Cardiology, Hôpital Charles Nicolle, University of Rouen, Rouen, France. John G. Webb is Medical Director, Catheterization Lab; Director, Interventional Cardiology Research; and Interventional Cardiologist, Division of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology, St. Paul’s Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Jean-Claude Laborde is Cardiologist, Cardiology Department, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK. Peter de Jaegere is Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
