Main description:

This book provides a glimpse of valvular aortic disease treatment, from its historical beginnings to the latest advances in technology. The epidemiology of the disease is reviewed, and imaging techniques and how to identify the right patient for the procedure are described. The different valves types (balloon, expandable, and self-expandable) are reviewed, along with the different techniques for implanting them. Finally, an industry overview of the field and the new engineering aspects of the devices are summarized.

Contents:

Introduction.- History of treatment of valve disease.- Epidemiology of aortic valve disease: Prevalence in the general population. The burden of AS in the elderly population.- Pathology of aortic valve stenosis.- Physiopathology of aortic stenosis and natural history of the disease.- Hemodynamic assessment.- Current treatment of aortic valve disease: euroheart survey.- Imaging of aortic valve stenosis.- Surgical aortic valve replacement.- Aortic balloon valvuloplasty.- The development of transcatheter valve implantation.- Percutaneous aortic valve implantation: Edwards. Corevalve. Direct Flow. Sadra.- Transapical implantation.- Patient selection for transcatheter valve implantation.- Managing complications of transcatheter valve implantations.- New technologies for TAVI.- Engineering challenges for transcatheter valves.- Health technology assessment for TAVI.- Learning the techniques.- Preclinical and clinical pathways for percutaneous aortic valve replacement