This book is a concise guide to vascular embolization and provides a perspective to the operator regarding embolization procedures in various clinical settings. This procedure has gained acceptance in terms of safety and efficacy with the advent of more advanced hardware like microcatheters, embolization materials and high resolution digital imaging. It is especially useful in patients with several critical co-morbid medical conditions which preclude radical surgeries as it is organ preserving, with limited complications. Therapeutic Embolization discusses indications for the procedure, materials used, established techniques, complications and outcomes of embolization in a detailed but practical manner. While it does not claim to be a comprehensive textbook, it concentrates on providing clinically relevant information on the technique suitable for cardiologists and radiologists training to use the techniques.

Auteur
Dr Kiron Varghese is Professor and Head of the Department of Cardiology, and also the Chief Interventional Cardiologist at St.Johns Medical College, Bangalore. He is a popular and well known Cardiologist, and his areas of expertise include Interventional Cardiology (Angioplasty and Stenting), Peripheral Interventions and Preventive Cardiology .He Graduated from St John's Medical College with a University Gold Medal in Final MBBS, completed his MD (General Medicine) from Bangalore Medical College, and then did Post-Doctoral training in Cardiology from Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology, Bangalore. Thereafter, he completed a Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology from the world famous Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA.He has also participated in numerous research projects and has numerous publications to his credit.

Dr Srilakshmi M Adhyapak was born in 1967 in Bangalore. Her interests are creative writing and painting. She had composed her first poem in 1978 and had published a few poems in school journals. She has graduated in Medicine with specialisation in Cardiology. She is at present working as 'Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiology, St.John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore.

Résumé

This book cites several clinical indications for embolization. Embolization is a safe and effective therapy for intra visceral bleeding, closure of arterio-venous malformations, non-surgical nephrectomy and splenectomy. It is especially useful in patients with several critical co-morbid medical conditions which preclude radical surgeries. It is organ preserving, with limited complications.

In the text, the procedural details are described in each clinical situation. The materials used for the procedure are also be described. The procedural pitfalls and complications are detailed in addition to precautions to be taken during the procedure.

This will serve as a reference guide for cardiologists and vascular radiologists.

Contenu
Overview of the indications for embolizations.- Materials used for embolization.- Bronchial artery embolization for massive hemoptysis.- Renal artery embolization for bleeding, hemangiomas, renal cell carcinoma.- Splenic artery embolization for non-surgical splenectomy.- Embolization of arterio-venous malformations.- Uterine artery embolization for intractable menorrhagia.