Recent advances in pediatric interventional cardiology

Recent advances in pediatric interventional cardiology

During the last 10 years, there have been major technological achievements in pediatric interventional cardiology. In addition, there have been several advances in cardiac imaging, especially in 3-dimensional imaging of echocardiography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and cineangiography. Therefore, more types of congenital heart diseases can be treated in the cardiac catheter...

Recent Advances in Cardiology

Some implications for clinical cardiology of recent advances in interventional cardiology.

RECENT YEARS have seen the development of many new techniques and therapies that are useful or potentially useful in the management of patients with cardiovascular diseases. A number of these procedures performed by cardiologists have given rise to the term "interventional cardiology," referring to the more active, interventional role of the physician performing the procedure as compared with t...

Recent Advances in Nuclear Cardiology

Nuclear cardiology uses radioisotopes to study various aspects of cardiac pathophysiology. Using the techniques of SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography) and PET (Positron Emission Tomography) one can study myocardial function, perfusion, metabolism, receptors, infarction, atherosclerosis, apoptosis and success of gene therapy. Gated Blood Pool (GBP / MUGA) studies provide an accura...

Contemporary Reviews in Interventional Cardiology Advances in Intravascular Imaging

This review updates the role of various intravascular imaging techniques (1) in the detection of vulnerable plaque and (2) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), especially drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation and follow-up—including intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), virtual histology (VH-IVUS) and integrated backscatter (IBIVUS), optical coherent tomography (OCT), near-infrared (NIR)...