**Meet the editor**

Dr Neville Kukreja is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at the East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust and the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. He did his undergraduate studies in Cambridge and London before completing his basic medical and cardiology training in London. He underwent training in Interventional Cardiology at St

Mary's Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital in London and also at the internationally renowned Thoraxcenter in Rotterdam. He is currently on the General Medical Council's specialist register with accreditation in both Cardiology and General Internal Medicine. He is a member of the British Cardiovascular Society, British Cardiovascular Intervention Society, European Society of Cardiology and European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. He has co-authored more than 40 original research articles, 10 review articles and 6 book chapters. He has also been a co-author of more than 45 scientific abstracts which have been presented at major national and international cardiology scientific meetings. He is a peer- reviewer for a number of high-impact journals. He has been an invited speaker and faculty member at major international cardiology meetings, including the American College of Cardiology (ACC), European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and American Heart Association (AHA). His clinical interests include general medicine, general cardiology with particular expertise in all aspects of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. His main research interests are the evaluation of new and existing drug-eluting stents and invasive coronary imaging (intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography). He currently contributes towards the general and interventional cardiology service at the East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, including the provision of daytime primary percutaneous coronary intervention for local patients suffering a heart attack. He also participates in the on call rota at the Harefield Heart Attack Centre, one of the busiest PPCI units in the country providing 24hr emergency treatment for heart attack patients from Northwest London, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Berkshire.

Contents

Chapter 1 **Transradial Approach** 

Antoine Guédès

Seung-Jin Lee

Chapter 4 **Therapeutic Hypothermia** 

Roman Škulec

R. Ernesto Oqueli

Chapter 6 **Drug Eluting Balloon 127** 

Chapter 7 **Cardiac Postconditioning:** 

Chapter 8 **DES Overview: A Historical and** 

Petros S. Dardas

**for Coronary Interventions:** 

Chapter 2 **Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and** 

Rohan Poulter and Jaap Hamburger

Chapter 3 **Complications of Coronary Intervention 47** 

**in Cardiac Arrest Survivors 71** 

**Disease – State of the Art 95** 

Chapter 5 **Percutaneous Intervention Post Coronary Artery** 

S. Sharma, N. Kukreja and D. A. Gorog

**An Additional Therapy to Limit** 

Chuck Simonton and Krishna Sudhir

Chapter 9 **Rotablation in the Drug Eluting Stent Era 181** 

**Graft Surgery in Patients with Saphenous Vein Graft** 

**Cell Death Following Myocardial Infarction 139**  Sandrine Lecour, Lionel Opie and Sarin J. Somers

Susan Bezenek, Poornima Sood, Wes Pierson,

**Current Review of Pivotal Clinical Trial Programs 155** 

**The New Gold Standard for Vascular Access? 1** 

**30-Day Mortality: The CANADA Score 29** 
