Meet the editor

Takashi Murashita, MD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery, University of Missouri, USA. Dr. Murashita received his MD from Kyoto University Medical School, Japan. His main interest is cardiac surgery, and he is a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgery, Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society, and Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. He has published fifty-three papers in peer-reviewed

journals and ten book chapters. He has been an editorial board member and ad hoc manuscript reviewer for several medical journals.

Contents

**Section 1**

*and Jean-François Tanguay*

*and Pilar Jimenez-Quevedo*

*by Carmelo Panetta and Johnny Chahine*

Radial Artery Access

**Section 2**

Replacement

Development

*by Takashi Murashita*

*by Lina Ya'qoub and Marvin Eng*

*and Felipe Fernández-Vázquez*

**Preface XI**

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 17**

**Chapter 3 41**

Percutaneous Valve Replacement **53**

**Chapter 4 55**

**Chapter 5 67**

**Chapter 6 83**

*by Carlos Minguito-Carazo, Tomás Benito-González, Rodrigo Estévez-Loureiro, Carmen Garrote-Coloma, Julio Echarte-Morales, Armando Pérez de Prado* 

The Current Perspectives in Valve-in-Valve Transcatheter Aortic Valve

Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement: Evolution and Future

Percutaneous Treatment of Tricuspid Regurgitation

Dual Antiplatelet Therapy after PCI: When Could We Go Shorter?

*by Marcel Santaló-Corcoy, Guillaume Marquis-Gravel* 

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Diabetic Patients *by Carolina Espejo Paeres, Breda Hennessey, Manel Sabaté* 
