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Preface

Minimally invasive cardiovascular interventions continue to expand worldwide with many new indications and a broad body of clinical investigations guiding many aspects of patient care and research innovation. Importantly, specialists from neighboring areas of medicine and surgery are becoming well‐versed in interventional, percutaneous, minimally invasive methods and techniques. The technological advancements are vast and essentially drive the overall growth of this field.

Hence, we had to critically revise and update all the sections of this book to encompass the principles and practice of coronary interventions, interventional pharmacology, structural heart interventions, and endovascular therapy. Each section includes key subjects presented in an organized way: starting with the pathophysiological problem and relevant pathology, to mechanisms of treatment, therapeutic options, risks, contraindications and complications, where applicable. The inclusion of multiple‐choice questions with each chapter allows a well‐framed self‐assessment. This innovative learning method was introduced by our 1st edition nearly a decade ago and has been adopted by many other textbook since that time.

The modular presentation of this textbook, both as a printed book, as well as e‐book, with a companion website providing extra material, reflects the effort of the publisher and the editors to reach out to many generations of physicians in training. The evolution of specialty certification and recertification has indeed made life learning a reality in our era. Therefore, the present textbook must also fulfill the quest to approach the new and tech‐savvy learner, those ahead of an initial certification examination, those in advanced clinical practice who need practical instruction for a certain specialized subject, as well as those who have been practicing for a long time and need to refresh their knowledge with or without a recertification examination ahead of them. We hope that readers will find our approaches both useful and practical.

George D. Dangas, Carlo Di Mario, Holger Thiele, and Peter Barlis