Local Drug Delivery for Coronary Artery Disease

Pioneers in the field the editors have assembled an excellent team of contributors with extensive experience of threatened vessel closure and restenosis acute thrombosis hyperproliferative cellular response stents and local drug delivery. Comprehensive and up-to-date this reference provides fully up-to-date information on currently available methods of drug delivery as well as illustrations of drug delivery methods with seventy-five color and seventy-five black and white photos throughout the book. With this impressive presentation of the most up-to-date methods and applications as well as a range of photographs illustrating their implementation this guide is an excellent resource for cardiologists pharmacologists cardiac surgeons and trainees. <p>Restenosis remains the Achilles heel of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions. Numerous pharmacological agents have been tested in order to reduce acute thrombosis and the hyperproliferative cellular response, and drug eluting stents-using the stent as a platform for local drug delivery-are now considered a significant breakthrough in interventional cardiology.<br><br>Pioneers in the field, the editors of Local Drug Delivery for Coronary Artery Disease have assembled an excellent team of contributors who offer their experience with threatened vessel closure and restenosis, acute thrombosis, hyperproliferative cellular response, stents and local drug delivery. They share their expertise on all aspects of the field, including a discussion of results from preclinical and clinical studies, and they examine alternative methods of molecular delivery to the vessel wall. <br><br>With coverage of the most current methods and applications, as well as a host of photographs illustrating their implementation, this book will serve as an excellent reference for cardiologists, pharmacologists, cardiac surgeons, and trainees.</p>