1. Epidemiology and physiology of coronary artery disease / Jessica M. Mann and Michael J. Davies -- 2. Coronary angiography for the interventional cardiologist / Michael S. Norell -- 3. Radiation protection, image archiving and communication systems / Anthony A. Nicholson -- 4. Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty : history, techniques, indications and complications / Brian O'Murchu and Richard K. Myler -- 5. Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty of single or multivessel disease and chronic total occlusions / Beat J. Meyer and Bernhard Meier -- 6. Cutting balloon angioplasty / Olivier F. Bertrand, David Meerkin and Raoul Bonan -- 7. Coronary Stenting I : intracoronary stents : form, function and future / David G. Almond -- 8. Coronary stenting II / Antonio Colombo and Evangelia Karvouni -- 9. Directional coronary atherectomy / David R. Ramsdale and Ever D. Grech -- 10. Rotational coronary atherectomy / Peter J. Casterella and Paul S. Teirstein -- 11. Excimer laser coronary angioplasty / Saibal Kar and Frank Litvack -- 12. Transluminal extraction coronary atherectomy / Sameer Mehta, James R. Margolis and Andres Hidalgo -- 13. Percutaneous coronary intervention in unstable angina and non-Q-wave myocardial infarction / David R. Ramsdale and Ever D. Grech -- 14. Coronary angioplasty in myocardial infarction / Menko-Jan de Boer and Felix Zijlstra -- 15. Adjunctive pharmacotherapy and coronary intervention / Derek P. Chew and A. Michael Lincoff -- 16. Thrombectomy and mechanical thrombolysis / Jose A. Silva and Stephen R. Ramee -- 17. Intervention after coronary artery bypass surgery / David R. Ramsdale -- 18. Overview of randomized trials of percutaneous coronary intervention : comparison with medical and surgical therapy for chronic coronary artery disease / Dominic L. Raco and Salim Yusuf -- 19. Restenosis : the problem and how to deal with it / Marco A. Costa, David P. Foley and Patrick W. Serruys -- 20. Management of restenosis through radiation therapy / Ron Waksman -- 21. Intravascular ultrasound imaging : assessment of coronary lesions, percutaneous interventions and brachytherapy / Clemens von Birgelen. [et al.] -- 22. Physiological measurement of coronary blood flow / Andrew L. McLeod and Neal G. Uren -- 23. Transmyocardial and percutaneous laser revascularization and angiogenesis / Sarah C. Clarke and Peter M. Schofield -- 24. Coronary intervention and the cardiac surgeon / John A.C. Chalmers and David R. Ramsdale -- 25. The cardiologist and peripheral intervention / Herbert Cordero and Richard R. Heuser -- 26. Transcatheter closure of ventricular septal defect post myocardial infarction / Lindsay W. Morrison and Kevin P. Walsh -- 27. Non-surgical septal reduction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy / Rodney H. Stables and Ulrich Sigwart -- 28. Percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy / Kanji Inoue, Kean-Wah Lau and Jui-Sung Hung -- 29. Interventional cardiac catheterization in adults with congenital heart disease / David J. Waight, Qi-Ling Cao and Ziyad M. Hijazi -- 30. Ablation of arrhythmias / Stephen S. Furniss and John P. Bourke -- 31. Percutaneous removal of retained intracardiac foreign bodies / Ever D. Grech and David R. Ramsdale -- 32. Femoral artery closure devices / Mazhar M. Khan -- 33. The principles and practice of audit in coronary intervention / Anthony Rickards and David Cunningham -- 34. Training programmes and certification in interventional cardiology in Europe / Bernhard Meier -- 35. Training in interventional cardiology in the United States : program accreditation and physician certification / Daniel M. Kolansky and John W. Hirshfield, Jr. -- 36. What's on the horizon? / Spencer B. King III and Mahomed Y. Salame.