Handbook of Coronary Stents

By Patrick W. Serruys MD PhD FACC FESC

Book Overview

Surgeons refer to this classic text again and again, partly because of the clarity of its innovative format, so useful and popular that it has been copied by others. This technical manual, now in its fourth edition, profiles all of the commercially available stents and some of those in early registry. The technical specifications of the stent and delivery systems are tabulated; each stent is illustrated in its unexpanded, mounted and expanded form (depending on the type of stent). Angiograms show the stent in situ. Handbook of Coronary Stents is a necessary adjunct for all those involved in interventional cardiology.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841840939
• ISBN13: 9781841840932
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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Since 1986 when both Jacques Puel and Ulrich Sigart first inserted coronary stents into humans, tens of thousands of stents have been implanted. The coronary stent has become part of the basic armentarium of the interventional cardiologist. The question facing the interventional cardiologist is which stent would best serve the purpose? The Handbook of Coronary Stents has full technical details of 17 stents to help the operator. Patrick Serruys and the team at the Thoraxcentre have enlisted the help of stent designers and pioneers in stenting so that the reader is up-to-date with the latest stent designs. -- from book's back cover.