David P Foley

Quantitative Coronary Angiography in Clinical Practice - Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine David P Foley

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Foreword. Introduction. Part I: Validation of QCA: In vitro and in vivo, off-line and on-line studies. Part II: The QCA Core Laboratory: practical lessons learned and application to clinical practice. Part III: Physiological applications of QCA, correlation with intracoronary physiological measurements obtained by alternative methodology. Part IV: QCA in the study of vasomotion. Part V: QCA in the setting of acute coronary syndromes, evaluation of the role of thrombolysis and balloon angioplasty. Part VI: QCA applied to the evaluation of immediate and long term outcome following coronary balloon angioplasty: experiences emerging from large multicentre restenosis prevention trials. Part VII: Evaluation of new devices and comparison with balloon angioplasty using QCA. Part VIII: QCA applied to the natural history of atherosclerosis. Part IX: Intravascular ultrasound and QCA. Index. Publisher Marketing: Quantitative coronary angiography has become an invaluable tool for the interventional cardiologist, providing objective and reproducible measurements of coronary artery dimensions, which can be used to study progression or regression of coronary atherosclerosis, as well as the immediate and long-term effects of percutaneous interventions.