Practical Handbook of Advanced Interventional Cardiology

Thach N Nguyen, MD, FACC, FACP, FSCAI Director of Cardiology, Community Health System, St Mary Medical Center, Hobart, IN, USA Dr Thach N Nguyen is director of cardiology at Community Health System, St Mary Medical Center, Hobart IN. Since 1992, he actively participated in the organization of the Great Wall International Congress of Cardiology, the largest cardiology educational meeting for China. His major publications include Management of Complex Cardiovascular Problems (second edition in English, Spanish and Vietnamese 2002). Practical Handbook of Advanced Interventional Cardiology (2nd edition Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2003, 3rd edition, Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2007). He has an academic appointment at Indiana University School of Medicine, honorary professorship of medicine at the Capital University of Medical Sciences and the Institute of Geriatric Cardiology of The Central People Liberation Army Hospital 301, Beijing, China. He is editorial consultant for the Journal of Interventional Cardiology and co-editor of the Journal of Geriatric Cardiology. Antonio Colombo, MD Director, Cardiac Catheterization laboratory Centro Cuore Columbus, Milan, Italy Dr. Antonio Colombo is an expert interventional cardiologist with a very large experience in coronary stenting and peripheral vascular disease, angioplasty and stenting. His particular fields of expertise are treatment of chronic total occlusions and treatment of diffuse disease in the performance of procedures which demand the usage of atherectomy devices. Dr. Colombo practices in Milano, Italy, as well as in New York, USA at Columbia Medical Center. Dayi Hu, MD Dean of Tonji University School of Medicine Shanghai, China Cindy L. Grines, MD Director of Cardiac Catherization Labratories Williams Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, MI, USA Shigeru Saito, MD Director of Cardiac Catherization Labratories Kamakura Hospital, Kamakura, Japan