Invasive Cardiology

Angiographic Contrast Agents: Current Issues; Configuring the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory for the 1990's; The Hemodynamic Diagnosis of Aortic Stenosis: New Insights and Issues; Invasive and Noninvasive Assessment of Ventricular and Valvular Function; Difficult Hemodynamic Interpretations; Can Coronary Angiography Define the Extent and Morphology of Coronary Disease and Predict the Site of a Subsequent Myocardial Infarction; Coronary Angioscopy: Assessment of Lesion Morphology; Newer Approaches to the Noninvasive Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease; Perspectives on Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty: Limitations and Comparison with Surgery; Lesion Morphology and Acute Outcome After Excimer Laser Angioplasty: A Prospective Evaluation; Directional Coronary Atherectomy; The Use of Stents in the Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease; Thermal Angioplasty; High-Speed Rotational Coronary Atherectomy; Ultrasound Angioplasty; Lesion-Based Device Choices: Defining the Niches; The Pathology of Restenosis; Restenosis: Pathophysiology and Rational Approaches to Interventions: Theseus and Minotaur? Coronary Resenosis: Insights From Animal Models; The Clinical Biology of Restenosis; Approach to the High-Risk Interventional Patient; Management of Abrupt Closure; Management of Cardiogenic Shock; State of the Art on Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty: What are the Indications for this Treatment in Aortic Stenosis; Precutancous Mitral Balloon Commissurotomy for Patients with Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis; Cardiac Transplant Coronary Artery Disease: Angiography and Interventions; Percutaneous Strategies for Management of Angina Pectoris Following Coronary Bypass Surgery; Cardiac Catheterization in the Adult with Congenital Heart Disease; Therapeutic Catheterization in the Adult with Congenital Heart Disease; The Use of Direct Angioplasty in the Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction; Indications For and Timing of Angiography After Thrombolysis; Should Everyone Have an Open Artery After Myocardial Infarction? Coronary Angiography: An Intervention Run Amok; Index