Annapoorna Kini • Samin Sharma
Jagat Narula
Editors

2014

Since the introduction of balloon angioplasty by Andreas Gruentzig in 1977, interventional cardiology has immensely proliferated in the last 37 years. Various new interventional devices and modifications of existing interventional techniques have mimproved the safety and long-term benefits of the interventional procedures. From the Cardiovascular Catheterization Lab of Mount Sinai Heart at Mount Sinai Hospital, we have compiled all commonly used interventional devices and their appropriate step-by-step technique of use in this manual of Interventional Cardiology.