Mastering Endovascular Techniques Tips and Tricks in Endovascular Surgery

This book provides a detailed practically applicable guide to using the latest endovascular techniques. Chapters feature detailed step-by-step instructions on how to perform procedures relevant for instances of disorders including cerebrovascular disease, splachnic arteries, and aortic aneurysms. Multiple choice questions are provided throughout to enable the reader to identify the points covered.   

Section I.- Biological effects of ionizing radiation.- Principles and guidelines for radiation protection.- Section II – Introduction in Endovascular Techniques.- The Angiographic Suite.- Basic tools and terminology for endovascular interventions.- Principles, sites and techniques of vascular access.- Techniques and devices for vessel closure.- Contrast media, nephropathy and prophyaxis .- Balloons and percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty.- Stents and percutaneous transluminal stent angioplasty.- Recanalization techniques.- Deep venous arteriliazation technique.- Embolic materials and embolization techniques.- Section III - Peripheral Occlusive Disease.- Interventions for aortoiliac disease.- Interventions for femoropopliteal disease.- Interventions for Tibial Disease.- Interventions for pedal disease.- Atherectomy and calcium modifying devices.- Novel endovascular technologies in femoropopliteal disease.- Complications and management in peripheral interventions.- Antiplatelets and anticoagulation in peripheral interventions.- Follow up and surveillance after peripheral interventions.- Endovascular management of acute limb ischemia.- Section IV – Cerebrovascular Disease.- Angioplasty and stenting of the arch branches.- Carotid artery stenting – Studies, indications and pre-interventional workup.- Technique and complications of transfemoral stenting.- Introduction to transcarotid artery revascularization.- Intracranial stenting.- Endovascular management of acute ischemic stroke.- Arch vessels dissection.- Embolizing cerebral aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations.- Section V – Splachnic Arteries.- Angioplasty and stenting of the mesenteric arteries.- Angioplasty and stenting of the renal arteries.- Endovascular management of splachnic aneurysms.- Section VI – Peripheral Aneurysms.- Current thresholds for treating aneurysms.- Endovascular management of popliteal aneurysms.- Peripheral Pseudoaneurysms.- Section VI – Vascular Access.- Creating  a percutaneous arteriovenous fistula: Evidence and techniques.- Hybrid grafts in vascular access.- Access and lines.- Endovascular techniques to manage vascular access failure.- Section VII – Coronary disease.- Introduction to coronary angioplasty.- Transcatheter aortic valve implantation.- Transcatheter mitral valve repair.- Atrial septal defect – Left atrial appendage.- Section VIII – Aortic Aneurysm.- Endovascular management of abdominal aortic aneurysms – EVAR studies.- Patient selection for EVAR .- Preprocedural planning and measurements for EVAR.- Interpretation of aortic MDCT images.- Introduction to endografts for infrarenal AAAs.- The role of Aortouniliac endografts .- Suprarenal vs Infrarenal fixation.- Hostile proximal neck- Angulated, short or conical.- Difficult vascular access.- Hemodynamic principles of endografts.- Fenestrated endografts.- Branched endografts.- Iliac bifurcations grafts.- Endovascular approach to the hypogastric artery.- Optimizing imaging and radiation exposure during complex EVAR.- Rescue of proximal failure of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair with standard and fenestrated grafts.- In situ fenestration in aortic endografts.- Chimneys and Periscopes.- Thoracic aortic aneurysm repair.-Endovascular management of aortic arch disease.- TEVAR Complications.- Endovascular management of ascending aortic disease.- Endovascular management of thoracic aortic trauma.- Endovascular management of ruptured aortic aneurysms.- Endovascular management of acute aortic dissection.- Endograft occlusion.- Endoleak Type I.- Type II endoleaks.- Endoleak Types III, IV, V.- Endograft infections.- Section IX – Venous.- Endovenous ablation of truncal veins.- Foam Sclerotherapy.- Introduction to Venous Stents and principles of stenting .- IVUS guided venous recanalization.- Endovascular management of chronic venous lesions.- Endovascular management of acute iliofemoral thrombosis.- Principles and techniques for the management of pelvic congestion.- Endovascular management of subclavian vein thrombosis.- Endovascular management of acute pulmonary embolism.- Management of Venous dysplasias.- Section X – Miscellaneous.- Biostatistics 1.- Biostatistics 2.- Medicolegal aspects of novel interventional techniques.

George Geroulakos is Professor and Chair of Vascular Surgery at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Head of the University Department of Surgery at the Attikon Hospital in Athens and Visiting Professor at the Imperial College in London since 2015. Previously he was Reader in Vascular Surgery at the Imperial College and President of Angiology at the Royal Society of Medicine in London. He has edited 3 books and authored more than 230 papers on vascular surgery. He has served in the Council of the European Society of Vascular Surgery and the board of examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Efthymios Avgerinos is Professor of Surgery and has been a faculty of the University of Pittsburgh since 2011. He is certified by the European Board of Vascular Surgery (FEBVS) Dr. Avgerinos has authored or co-authored more than 200 peer reviewed publications and chapters on vascular surgery and his work has been widely cited and recognized with international awards. Hehas served on the Executive Councils of the European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS), European Union of Medical Specialties (UEMS), and International Society for Vascular Surgery (ISVS). He is currently serving in the Education, Clinical Research, and Guideline Committees of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and the Eastern Vascular Society (EVS). He has been recently appointed Visiting Professor of Vascular Surgery of the University of Athens, Greece.

Jean Pierre Bequemin, Pr JP Becquemin,Former Head of the Unit of Vascular Surgery and Cardio Vascular Department Henri Mondor Hospital,University Paris East France. Founding Member of the Vascular Institute of Paris East  Champigny France

Alberto Froio is Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Dr. Froio is Director of the Master of Science (MSc) in Endovascular Techniques (MET), University of Milano-Bicocca, since 2012 and Director of the one-year post-graduate course “Carotidultrasound”, University of Milano-Bicocca. He is Director of the Vascular Surgery Residency Program at University of Milano-Bicocca, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza. He is Visiting Professor of Vascular Surgery at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Dr Froio contributed to membership of Editorial Boards and reviewer activity for several Journals.

Gregory Makris is a consultant in endovascular and interventional radiology at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, London UK. He completed his specialty training in Clinical Imaging as an NIHR Academic Clinical fellow in Cambridge University hospitals and his subspecialty training in vascular and interventional radiology at Oxford University Hospitals. Before his clinical specialty training he was awarded a PhD in Vascular surgery from Imperial college of London for his work on vascular imaging and carotid disease. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Radiology and active member of the nationaland interventional radiology community having held positions as chairman of the trainee committees in the British Society of Interventional Radiology as well as in the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE. He is the main author of more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, member of the CVIR endovascular journal editorial board as and peer reviewer for a number of international journals.