Endovascular Intervention
Basic Concepts and Techniques

This text on endovascular intervention includes practical step-by-step instructions, and advice on how to avoid common pitfalls.

Appealing to a multidisciplinary audience of vascular surgeons, interventional cardiologists and radiologists, this illustrated text is intended to be a practical guide, as well as a technical primer, for both veterans and beginning interventionists, with quick answers to common questions.

Introduction1. Fundamental Skills and "Endo-Habits"Frank J. Criado, MD2. Endovascular Suite Design. An Integrated Approach for Optimal Interventional PerformanceEdward B. Diethrich, MD3. Guidewires and Catheters: Basic Designs and ChoicesFrank J. Criado, MD4. Percutaneous Arterial Puncture and Endoluminal Access TechniquesFrank J. Criado, MD5. Techniques of Diagnostic AngiographyJohn Anderson, MBSS6. Principles of Balloon AngioplastyFrank J. Criado, MD7. Vascular Stents: Basic Concepts and DesignsFrank J. Criado, MD8. Endoluminal Stents: Physical and Biological PropertiesJulio C. Palmaz, MD9. New Developments in Nitinol StentsFrank J. Criado, MD10. Endovascular Intervention in the Iliac Arteries and Distal Abdominal Aorta for Occlusive DiseaseFrank J. Criado, MD11. Techniques of Renal Artery InterventionFrank J. Criado, MD12. Endovascular Treatment of Occlusive Lesions in the Femoropopliteal Territory: Current Indications and TechniquesFrank J. Criado, MD13. Technical Approaches for Endovascular Intervention Below the Knee and Vein Graft StenosisFrank J. Criado, MD14. Principles and Basic Techniques of ThrombolysisKamran Ahrar, MD, Mark W. Mewissen, MD15. Endovascular Intervention in the Proximal Brachiocephalic Supra-Aortic ArteriesFrank J. Criado, MD16. Techniques of Carotid Artery StentingEdward B. Diethrich, MD17. Intravascular Ultrasound as an Interventional ToolC.E. Donayre, G.E. Kopchok, G. Nishanian, Rodney A. White, MD18. Stent-grafts for Endoluminal Exclusion of AAA and Other Lesions: Basic Ideas and Current DevelopmentsFrank J. Criado, MD19. Endovascular Intervention and Its Impact on Vascular Practice: Current and Future PerspectivesTakao Ohki, MD, Frank J. Veith, MD