Francesco Maisano – författare

Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation is a common valvular pathology, estimated to affect 1.6 million people in the USA alone. Even though guidelines recommend either medical therapy or surgical treatment, the misconception of the disorder as a benign disease - along with the high mortality rates of surgical intervention - has led to undertreatment of this disease and description of it as a “forgotten” valve. This text from international experts looks at the disease and the developing transcatheter interventions with promising potential for use in the clinical setting.

This book provides a practically applicable guide to the use of multimodality imaging for managing aortic valve disorders. Details of how to successfully diagnose a range of aortic valve diseases is presented, with detailed information covered on the techniques and relevant criteria for pre-operative screening, surgical and transcatheter planning, intraprocedural imaging and related postoperative follow-up. Multimodality Imaging for Cardiac Valvular Interventions, Volume 1 Aortic Valve: From Diagnosis to Decision-Making enables the reader to develop a thorough understanding and confidence of how to make appropriate clinical decisions when confronted by a range of aortic valve diseases.  It is therefore a key resource for  practicing cardiac imagers, cardiologists and interventional cardiologists who encounter these patients in their day-to-day clinical practice and trainees in cardiology seeking insight on the appropriate management of these patients.