Percutaneous interventions in women. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Guest editors, Roxana Mehran, Annapoorna S. Kini.
• Other Names: Mehran, Roxana; Kini, Annapoorna S
• Contents: Front Cover; Interventional Cardiology Clinics; Copyright Page; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface: Coronary Artery Disease in Women: Shyly Bold?; Chapter 1. An Approach to Asymptomatic and Atypically or Typically Symptomatic Women with Cardiac Disease; RISK DETECTION IN ASYMPTOMATIC WOMEN; EVALUATION OF SUSPECTED CARDIAC SYMPTOMS IN WOMEN; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 2. Revascularization Strategies in Women with Stable Cardiovascular Disease: What do the Trials Reveal?; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF CAD IN WOMEN; REVASCULARIZATION STRATEGIES; CABG; SUMMARY; REFERENCES. Chapter 3. Interventional Management of ACS in Women: STEMI and NSTEMITHE GENDER GAP; STEMI; NSTEMI; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 4. The Generations of Drug-Eluting Stents and Outcomes in Women; DEVELOPMENT OF CORONARY STENTING; FIRST GENERATION OF DES; SECOND GENERATION OF DES; NEXT-GENERATION STENTS; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 5. PCI Outcomes in High-Risk Groups (Diabetes Mellitus, Smoker, Chronic Kidney Disease and the Elderly); WHAT IS HIGH-RISK PCI?; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 6. Vascular Complications in Women and the Radial Approach; GENDER DIFFERENCES. CLINICAL AND PROCEDURAL PREDICTORSUSE OF ANTITHROMBOTIC AGENTS IN WOMEN; RADIAL APPROACH; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 7. Is Stenting an Appropriate Therapy in Women Presenting with Acute Coronary Syndrome? A Pathologist's Perspective; HISTOPATHOLOGY OF ACS AND THROMBOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY OF STENTED CORONARY ARTERY; REFERENCES; Chapter 8. Does Gender have an Influence on Platelet Function and the Efficacy of Oral Antiplatelet Therapy?; GENDER-RELATED DIFFERENCE IN PLATELET REACTIVITY; GENDER-RELATED DIFFERENCE IN PLATELET REACTIVITY; ANTIPLATELET RESPONSE TO ASPIRIN IN WOMEN. ANTIPLATELET RESPONSE TO ASPIRIN AND CLOPIDOGREL IN WOMENSUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 9. Cardiogenic Shock in Women; THE SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM; CAUSES OF CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; RISK FACTORS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK IN SPECIAL SITUATIONS; THERAPEUTIC OPTIONS; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; Chapter 10. Percutaneous Valve Therapy: Choosing the Appropriate Patients and Outcomes; GENDER DIFFERENCES IN TREATMENT AND OUTCOME IN SEVERE AS; GENDER DIFFERENCES IN PERCUTANEOUS AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; GENDER DIFFERENCES IN THE ITALIAN PERCUTANEOUS AORTIC VALVE REGISTRY.
• Publisher Details: Philadelphia : Saunders
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 157-263 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 616.120082; Heart diseases in women; Heart -- Surgery; Cardiovascular system -- Diseases -- Treatment; Angioplasty; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Heart; MEDICAL -- Cardiology; Angioplasty; Cardiovascular system -- Diseases -- Treatment; Heart diseases in women; Heart -- Surgery; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781455744114; 1455744115
• Related ISBNs: 9781455738823
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.