Front cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Section A: Introduction -- Chapter 1. More than 25 years of percutaneous cardiovascular interventions: A historical perspective -- Section B: Patient preparation and selection -- Chapter 2. Optimal patient preparation and selection to avoid complications -- Chapter 3. Optimal antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy, prevention and management of thrombotic complications -- Chapter 4. Femoral vascular access and vascular bleeding complications -- Chapter 5. Specific complications of the radial approach: how to avoid them -- Section C: During the procedure -- Chapter 6. Abrupt vessel closure and no-reflow -- Chapter 7. Management of stent loss and foreign body retrieval -- Chapter 8. Coronary perforation: incidence, predictive factors, management, and prevention -- Section D: Device-related complications -- Chapter 9. How to perform optimal directional atherectomy -- Chapter 10. Embolic protection devices and complications during percutaneous coronary interventions -- Chapter 11. Management and prevention of complications during specific interventions: intravascular ultrasound, intracoronary Doppler -- Chapter 12. Percutaneous left ventricular assist devices in the high-risk patient -- Section E: Specific issues -- Chapter 13. How to prevent and manage complications during primary percutaneous cardiovascular interventions -- Chapter 14. Chronic total occlusion: potentials for serious adverse events -- Chapter 15. Left main interventions: treatment of serious potential complications -- Chapter 16. Specific concerns to improve the safety of drug-eluting stents -- Section F: General issues -- Chapter 17. The ABC and D of cardiac resuscitation in the cath lab -- Chapter 18. Cardiac arrhythmias complicating percutaneous coronary interventions: management and prevention.

Chapter 19. Renal complications after percutaneous intervention: cholesterol embolism and contrast nephropathy -- Section G: Noncoronary cardiac interventions -- Chapter 20. Complications of percutaneous valve interventions -- Chapter 21. Complications during percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale, atrial and ventricular septum defects -- Section H: Words of wisdom -- Chapter 22. The Ten Commandments for the young interventional cardiologist -- Chapter 23. Ten golden rules for avoiding complications during percutaneous cardiovascular interventions -- Index -- Back cover.