The PCR Textbook

Where science meets practice - your educational reference textbook in interventional cardiology!

Editor-in-Chief

Robert Byrne

Interventional cardiologist / Cardiologist

Mater Private - Dublin, Ireland

Deputy Editors

Piera Capranzano

Interventional cardiologist / Cardiologist

Faculty of Medicine - University of Catania - Catania, Italy

Franz-Josef Neumann

Interventional cardiologist / Cardiologist

University Heart Centre - Bad Krozingen, Germany

Fabien Praz

Interventional cardiologist / Cardiologist

Berne University Hospital - Bern, Switzerland

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The PCR Textbook is a first of its kind, all-inclusive reference whose scope and content is patient-centered and promotes good, evidence-based clinical practices.

• 120+ illustrated chapters dedicated to diagnosis, coronary interventions, structural heart disease, and peripheral interventions
• Covers everything clinical and practical that today’s interventional cardiologist needs to know

It covers the following areas:

• Foundations of CV Medicine – General Principles
• Diagnostic CV Imaging Modalities
• Cardiac Catheterization, Hemodynamics, and Cardiac Function
• Coronary Physiology
• Renal Function and Contrast Agents
• Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
• Cardiogenic Shock, Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Devices, and Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest
• Transcatheter Heart Valve Interventions
• Percutaneous Interventions for the Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism
• Percutaneous Interventions for the Treatment of Arterial Hypertension
• Percutaneous Interventions for Heart Failure
• Percutaneous Interventions for Prevention and Treatment of Stroke
• Percutaneous Peripheral Vascular Interventions
• Percutaneous Congenital Heart Disease Interventions
• Percutaneous Intervention for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
• Adjunctive Pharmacology for Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease
• Basics on Clinical Research, Biostatistics, and Health Economics