VitalSource e-Book for Carotid Artery Stenting: Current Practice and Techniques

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Preface

Section I: Clinical Results and Indications
1. Obstructive Carotid Artery Disease and Evidence-Based Benefits of Revascularization
Alfredo M. Lopez-Yuñez and José Biller
2. Historical Background: 25 Years of Endovascular Therapy for Obstructive Carotid Artery Disease
Klaus Mathias
3. Evidence-Based Efficacy in Preventing Stroke
Sumaira Macdonald, Trevor J. Cleveland, and Peter A. Gaines
4. The Global Carotid Artery Stent Registry
Michael H. Wholey, Nadim Al-Mubarak, Mark H. Wholey, and The Interventionalists at the Participating Carotid Stent Centers
5. Current Indications of Carotid Artery Stenting
Nadim Al-Mubarak and Gary S. Roubin
6. Recurrent Stenosis Following Carotid Endarterectomy
7. The Role of Multispeciality Groups in Carotid Artery Stenting
Michael H. Wholey

Section II: Carotid Artery Stenting Techniques
8. Basic Angiographic Anatomy of the Brachiocephalic Vasculature
Nadim Al-Mubarak and Jiri J. Vitek
9. Carotid Artery Access Techniques
Nadim Al-Mubarak, Jiri J. Vitek, Sriram S. Iyer, and Gary S. Roubin
10. Procedural Techniques
Sriram S. Iyer, Nadim Al-Mubarak, Jiri J. Vitek, and Gary S. Roubin
11. The Direct Cervical Carotid Artery Approach
Edward B. Diethrich
12. Procedural Complications
Nadim Al-Mubarak, Sriram S. Iyer, Gary S. Roubin, and Jiri J. Vitek
13. The Risk of Embolization During Carotid Stenting and the Concept of Anti-Embolization
Takao Ohki
14. Microembolization During Carotid Artery Stenting
Nadim Al-Mubarak
15. Carotid Artery Stenting with the Distal Occlusion Anti-Embolization System
Michael Henry, Antonios Polydorou, Isabelle Henry, and Michèle Hugel
16. Intravascular Filter Anti-Embolization Systems
Goran Stankovic and Antonio Colombo
17. The Proximal Balloon Catheter: “The Parodi Anti-Emboli System”
Mark C. Bates and Juan Carlos Parodi
18. Anti-Embolization Protection: Illustrative Cases and Technical Pearls
Francesco Liistro and Antonio Colombo
19. Restenosis Following Carotid Artery Stenting
Fayaz Shawl
20. Limitations of Current Equipment and the Future Carotid Artery Stenting Device
Horst Sievert and Kasja Rabe
21. Elective Angioplasty and Stenting for Intracranial Atherosclerotic Stenoses
H. Christian Schumacher, Philip M. Meyers, J.P Mohr, and Randall T. Higashida

Section III: Future Directions
22. Current Status of Clinical Trials and Implication of Anti-Emboli Protection
Brajesh K. Lal and Robert W. Hobson II
23. Statistical and Experimental Design Issues in the Evaluation of Carotid Artery Stenting
George Howard, Brent J. Shelton, and Virginia J. Howard
24. Clinical Investigations and Protocols
Christina M. Brennan, Pallavi Kumar, and Gary S. Roubin

Subject Index