DESCRIPTION:
This heavily revised second edition comprehensively reviews the use of optical coherence tomography (OCT) in cardiovascular practice. It provides detailed guidance on how to properly interpret OCT images and successfully utilise it in daily clinical practice Chapters cover the development and physics associated with OCT, relevant interpretation skills, OCT imaging artifacts, plaque erosion, bioabsorbable stent, the detection of vulnerable plaque, and the use of OCT imaging in unison with other modalities such as phase contrast imaging (PCI). Areas of potential future development are also covered
Cardiovascular OCT Imaging enables interventional cardiologists and cardiologists to quickly become both familiar and develop a detailed understanding of this technology to improve patient care and treatment outcome. It is a valuable reference for all practising and trainee medical professionals in cardiology, and in particular those who specialize in interventional cardiology.
CONTENTS:
1. The Development of Optical Coherence Tomography
2. Histology Validation of Optical Coherence Tomography Images
3. Basic Interpretation Skills
4. Intravascular OCT Imaging Artifacts
5. Coronary Plaque Types: Thin Cap Fibroatheroma, Healed Plaque, Calcified Plaque
6. Plaque Erosion
7. OCT Imaging of SCAD and Differential Diagnosis
8. How to Use OCT to Optimize PCI?
9. Post-PCI OCT Findings and the Clinical Significance
10. Very Late Stent Thrombosis
11. OCT for Bioabsorbable Vascular Scaffold
12. Detection of Vulnerable Plaque
13. Multimodality Intravascular OCT Imaging
14. Future Development
