1. Immunoallergic syndromes in interventional cardiology / Chourmouzios A. Arampatzis, Giannis Kanonidis, and Patrick W. Serruys -- 2. The kidney and percutaneous coronary interventions / Eugenia Nikolsky, Alexander Abizaid, and Roxana Mehran -- 3. Treatment of coronary artery disease in diabetic patients / Pilar Jimenez-Quevedo and Manel Sabate Tenas -- 4. Ad hoc percutaneous coronary intervention / Francesco Saia, Federica Baldazzi, and Antonio Marzocchi -- 5. Dilemmas in non-ST elevation acute coronary syndromes / John A. Ambrose, John T. Coppola, and Henning Rasmussen -- 6. Patients with impaired hemostasis requiring cardiac catheterization and coronary intervention / Nicolai Mejevoi, Jean-Bernard Durand, and Marc Cohen -- 7. ST elevation acute myocardial infarction admitted in a distant location / Marc C. Newell, David M. Larson, and Timothy D. Henry -- 8. Stable obstructive coronary disease and very low left ventricular function / Pedro de Araujo Gonçalves and Ricardo Seabra-Gomes -- 9. Multivessel disease in patients with acute myocardial infarction and high-risk unstable angina : culprit versus non-culprit intervention / Francesco Saia and David Antoniucci -- 10. Patients requiring cardiac and non-cardiac surgical procedures following percutaneous coronary interventions / Gary E. Lane and David R. Holmes Jr. -- 11. Invasive treatment (percutaneous coronary intervention) of patients at high surgical risk / Douglass A. Morrison -- 12. Percutaneous coronary intervention for patients with multivessel disease / Andrew T.L. Ong and Patrick W. Serruys -- 13. Highly complex anatomical morphologies : percutaneous intervention versus bypass surgery / Leonardo C. Clavijo and Augusto Pichard -- 14. Advanced atherosclerotic diseases in multiple vascular bed sites / Luis A. Guzman and Theodore Bass -- 15. The intermediate coronary lesion / Pedro A. Lemos, and Patrick W. Serruys -- 16. Percutaneous coronary intervention in the treatment of cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction / Expedito Ribeiro. [and others] -- 17. The hypotensive patient after angioplasty : occult life-threatening percutaneous coronary intervention-related complications / Eulogio E. Martinez, Marco A. Perin, and Luiz J. Kajita -- 18. Percutaneous treatment for patients with end-stage aortic valve disease / Aamer H. Jamali and Raj R. Makkar -- 19. Acute coronary dissection, occlusion, and perforation during percutaneous coronary intervention : surgical, percutaneous, or medical management / Goran Stankovic and Antonio Colombo -- 20. Septal ablation for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy : to whom, when and how? / Muzaffer Degertekin. [and others] -- 21. End-stage left ventricular failure : potential catheter-based therapeutic strategies / Emerson C. Perin, Guilherme V. Silva, and Pilar Jimenez-Quevedo -- 22. Massive pulmonary embolism : the potential of catheter-based strategies / Phillip T. Zeni Jr. -- 23. Large thrombus burden, slow-flow, no-reflow, and distal embolization / Jose A. Silva and Christopher J. White -- 24. The role of interventional cardiology in functional coronary stenosis / Eulogio E. Martinez. [and others] -- 25. Complications of drug-eluting stents : thrombosis and restenosis / J. Eduardo Sousa and Luiz Alberto Mattos -- 26. Coronary interventions in patients with antiplatelet therapy resistance / Dominick J. Angiolillo and Marco A. Costa.