• ISBN13: 9783031258817
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Springer
• Publisher Imprint: Springer
• Publication Date: April 18, 2024
• Pages: 556
• Original Price: EUR 119.99
• Language: English
• Edition: 2023
• Item Weight: 1052 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Surgery / Cardiothoracic, Cardiology, and Radiology, Radiotherapy & Nuclear Medicine

This book describes the different aspects of ischemic heart disease, one of the leading causes of death in industrialized countries, and whose growing prevalence represents a major challenge in terms of short- and long-term management and surveillance. This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of the state-of-the-art diagnostic imaging options, of disease risk stratification, selection of candidates for surgical intervention, percutaneous revascularitation, mechanical assist devices implantation. Recently, the morbidity and mortality of ischaemic heart disease have substantially improved because of the progress in therapeutic strategies, represented by the dramatic evolution of percutaneous coronary interventions, that are carefully described in the volume, together with all the other most recent treatment options: from medical therapy to conventional surgery, minimally invasive surgery, surgery of ischemic complications. The biggest challengein the next years is, however, to reduce the incidence of coronary artery disease worldwide.

This highly illustrated, case oriented reference book is aimed at cardiology fellows in training, while also helpful to surgeons, cardiologists, imaging specialists, interventional cardiologists, as well as other clinicians and students involved in the diagnosis and treatment of ischemic disease.

Dr. Giovanni Concistrè is currently a cardiac surgeon at the Ospedale del cuore "G. Pasquinucci", Massa, Italy. He received his Degree cum laude in Medicine at Perugia University. His interest in research on ischemic disease developed and in October 2009 he got a Degree cum laude in Cardiac Surgery at Genova University. In 2010 he worked at Department of Cardiac Surgery and Heart Transplantation of San Camillo Hospital in Rome and subsequently he became Assistentarzt at Deutsch Herz Zentrum in Munich and at Klinikum Nurnberg, Germany. From February 2013 to April 2014, he worked at Clinica S. Anna in Catanzaro, Italy. Dr. Concistrè is the author of numerous publications in scientific journals and has always been interested in sutureless aortic bioprostheses, presenting also numerous works at international conferences. Since May 2014, he has been cardiac surgeon in Massa, Italy.