"Coronary stenosis. Imaging, structure and physiology" has been designed as a clinically and research orientated reference for all cardiologists, physicians, cardiovascular imagers, trainees and investigators working in the field of ischemic heart disease.

This book comes to fill a gap in the medical literature: a textbook providing a comprehensive, multifaceted analysis of atherosclerotic and non-atherosclerotic coronary stenoses, addressing multiple issues that are of key importance in invasive and non-invasive diagnostic studies of the coronary vessels.

Part I - Haemodynamics of coronary stenosis

* 1 - Anatomy and structure of coronary circulation
* 2 - Fundamental concepts of coronary physiology Video available on this chapter
* 3 - Haemodynamic effects of focal and diffuse coronary stenosis
* 4 - Interactions between coronary stenoses and microcirculation
* 5 - Physiology of collateral circulation

Part II - Structure of coronary stenosis

* 6 - Structure of stable and vulnerable atheromatous plaques
* 7 - Vessel remodelling and coronary stenosis
* 8 - Metalloproteinases and atheromatous plaque vulnerability Video available on this chapter
* 9 - Intracoronary thrombosis and stenosis
* 10 - Structure of chronic total occlusions Video available on this chapter
* 11 - Role of vasa vasorum in atherogenesis and coronary syndromes

Part III - Invasive and non-invasive imaging of coronary stenosis

* 12 - Angiographic evaluation of coronary stenosis: a historical perspective
* 13 - Contemporary angiographic analysis of coronary stenosis
* 14 - Intravascular ultrasound in the assessment of coronary stenosis Video available on this chapter
* 15 - Intravascular palpography for vulnerable plaque assessment
* 16 - Optical coherence tomography in the study of coronary stenosis Video available on this chapter
* 17 - Angioscopic evaluation of coronary stenosis
* 18 - Assessment of coronary stenosis with near infrared spectroscopy
* 19 - Evaluation of plaque composition with intracoronary Raman spectroscopy Video available on this chapter
* 20 - Intracoronary thermography in the assessment of plaque inflammation
* 21 - Assessment of atheromatous plaques with magnetic resonance imaging
* 22 - Non-invasive study of coronary stenoses with multidetector computed tomography Video available on this chapter

Part IV - Invasive and non-invasive functional assessment of coronary stenosis

* 23 - Radionuclide evaluation of myocardial ischaemia
* 24 - Echocardiographic assessment of myocardial ischaemia
* 25 - Evaluation of myocardial ischaemia with nuclear magnetic resonance Video available on this chapter
* 26 - Assessment of stenosis severity with intracoronary pressure and thermodilution measurements
* 27 - Intracoronary Doppler-based techniques for stenosis appraisal Video available on this chapter

Part V - Dynamic coronary stenosis

* 28 - Physiology and assessment of myocardial bridges
* 29 - Pathophysiology and assessment of coronary spasm
* 30 - Spontaneous coronary dissection
* 31 - Congenital coronary anomalies causing extravascular vessel compression Video available on this chapter

Part VI - Iatrogenic stenoses after cardiac interventions

* 32 - Saphenous vein graft attrition
* 33 - Restenosis in bare metal and drug-eluting stents
* 34 - Coronary stenosis in transplant graft vasculopathy Video available on this chapter