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Welcome to PCIpedia.org. This wiki-based PCI course and -textbook is designed for especially for cardiology residents and intervention cardiologists. PCIpedia.org is not intended as a patient information site. Visit this site to learn about percutaneous coronary interventions.

The PCI course

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Go to the Cardiac catherization course
  • Introduction
  • Preparation
  • Radiation hygiene
  • Indications and contra-indications for right sided cardiac catheterization
  • Techniques of left sided catheterization
  • Coronary anatomy
  • Coronary anomalies
  • Miscellaneous
  • Indications and contra-indications for right sided cardiac catheterization
  • Techniques of right sided catheterization
  • Anatomy
  • Congenital heart disease

The PCI Textbook

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Browse the illustrated PCI Textbook

a. Atherosclerosis and vascular biology b. Antiplatlet and antithrombotic agents c. Other medication d. Intravascular contrast agents e. Guiding catheter selection f. Guidewire selection g. Embolic protection h.

a. QCA b. Intravascular ultrasound c. Optical coherence tomography d. Coronary physiology e. 3. Management of hemodynamic stress a. Medication b. IABP c. IMPELLA 4. Indication for PCI a. Elective PCI b. PCI for NSTEMI/ ACS c. PCI for STEMI d. Rescue PCI and facilitated PCI 5. Type of PCI a. Balloon angioplasty b. Bare metal stents c. Drug eluting stent d. Drug elutoing ballon e. Bioabsorble stent f. Rotational atherectomy g. Cutting ballon h. Directional coronary atherectomy i. laserangioplasty 6. Type of anatomy a. Single vessel PCI b. Ostial lesions c. Bifurcations d. Long lesions e. Diffuse disease f. Chronic total occlusions g. Main stem h. Saphenous vein grafts 7. Management of periprocedural complications 8. Closure devices 9. Late complications 10. Valvuloplasty a. Ballon valvuloplasty b. PAVI c. Mitral valve insufficiency 11. PFO closure 12. Septal ablation 13. Peripheral intervention

Cases and Examples

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Learn from these cases and examples
News
  • HELP WANTED!!!!! Please send us your interesting intervention cases. Any format is welcome, we will convert it. You are also invited to write a chapter for the textbook, or comment on existing chapters
  • PCIpedia is currently in a construction phase. Please let us know if you would like to contribute to this first freely accessible, open access, wiki PCI course!.