Transcatheter Valve Repair

Abstract

Ziyad M. Hijazi, Philipp Bonhoeffer, Ted Feldman, Carlos E. Ruiz, eds 382 pages. London, UK: Taylor & Francis; 2006. $95.00. ISBN 1-84184-472-1 Modern interventional cardiology is grounded in the performance of percutaneous coronary interventions. However, beginning with the introduction of atrial septostomy and then followed by percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty, noncoronary interventions have provided a growing contribution to general procedures in the cardiac catheterization laboratory. Today, up to 30% of all interventions reflect a growing list of both peripheral procedures and cardiac noncoronary interventions for structural and valvular heart disease. The first successful valvular interventions, namely balloon valvuloplasty for pulmonic, mitral, and aortic stenosis, were performed more than 20 years ago, but only recently have successful interventions for aortic stenosis and regurgitant valvular disease been developed and attempted. The combination of these valvular interventions, other interventions for patients with structural heart disease, and the growing population of adults with congenital heart disease provide the basis for a whole new subspecialty within interventional cardiology. This book is one of the first to specifically address this new subspecialty. It was compiled by a who’s who of …