Download or read book Percutaneous Approaches to Valvular Heart Disease, An Issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics written by Samin K. Sharma and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2012-01-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most recently developed procedures for treating heart disease in a minimally invasive way are the techniques for percutaneous treatment of valvular heart disease. These are important advances because the only alternative is open heart surgery, which is not an option for many high-risk patients. This issue provides a detailed description of several percutaneous procedures, including trans-catheter aortic valve implantation.