Ischemic Heart Disease : From Diagnosis to Treatment / [E-Book]

Foreword -- 1. Surgical Anatomy of Coronary Arteries: Morphogenesis, Normal and Pathological Anatomy -- 2. Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis: a Multifactorial Process -- 3. Prevention of Coronary Atherosclerosis -- 4. History of Ischemic Heart Disease -- 5. Pathophysiology of ischemic syndromes in coronary artery disease -- 6. Epidemiology of Ischemic Heart Disease -- 7. Nonatherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease -- 8. Evaluation of Anginal Syndromes Using Standard Clinical Procedures -- 9. Cardiovascular Biomarkers in Acute Myocardial Infarction -- 10. Electrocardiogram in Ischemic Heart Disease -- 11. Exercise Testing and Its Role in Ischemic Heart Disease -- 12. Echocardiography Evaluation of Ischemic Heart Disease -- 13. Cardiac Catheterization and Coronary Arteriography -- 14. Computed Tomography Cardiac Imaging: Coronary Artery Disease and Ischemia -- 15. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Myocardium, Coronary Arteries, and Anomalous Origin of Coronary Arteries -- 16. Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction -- 17. Indications for Myocardial Revascularitation -- 18. Multidisciplinary Approach to Treatment of Ischemic Heart Disease: the Role of the Heart Team -- 19. Pharmacological Treatment of Ischemic Heart Disease -- 20. Percutaneous Myocardial Revascularitation -- 21. Anomalous Aortic Origin of a Coronary Artery: Clinical and Surgical Perspective -- 22. Surgical Myocardial Revascularitation with Cardiopulmonary Bypass -- 23. How to expose all sides of the heart without the use of extra-corporeal circulation -- 24. Graft Materials, Harvesting Methods and Treatment of Grafts in Surgical Myocardial Revascularitation -- 25. Total arterial revascularization, techniques and results -- 26. Management of patients with concomitant coronary and carotid artery disease -- 27. Minimally Invasive Myocardial Revascularitation -- 28. Redo CABG - History, Epidemiology, Surgical treatment and Outcomes -- 29. Surgical Complications after Acute Myocardial Infarction: Ventricular Septal Defect and Free Wall Rupture -- 30. Surgical Ventricular Remodeling in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy -- 31. Mitral Regurgitation from Ischemic Heart Disease -- 32. Cardiac Transplantation and Assistent Devices for Ischemic Heart Disease -- 33. Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization -- 34. Stem cells therapy for ischemic heart disease.

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 inthe 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.