This handbook supplements hands-on training in interventional cardiology with a specific focus on percutaneous intervention in patients with extracranial carotid artery stenosis. It carries reviews of landmark studies supporting carotid endarectomy and stenting and is a comprehensive guide to this exciting and burgeoning field.

"The Handbook of Complex Percutaneous Carotid Intervention supplements hands-on training in interventional cardiology with a specific focus on percutaneous intervention in patients with extracranial carotid artery stenosis. As both technology and technique continue to improve, the volume of carotid stent procedures performed worldwide has increased dramatically. The authors recognize that interventionalists of the cerebrovasculature must perform stenting of other major cerebral vessels, and thus provide cutting-edge approaches for percutaneous interventions of intracranial stenosis, vertebral artery stenosis, and acute stroke.

Clinical Experience.- Epidemiology and Significance of Carotid Artery Stenosis.- Medical Therapy for Carotid Artery Stenosis.- Carotid Endarterectomy.- Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting Trials.- Cerebrovascular Anatomy.- Noninvasive Imaging of the Carotid Artery.- Cerebrovascular Angiography.- Indications for Carotid Artery Stenting.- Techniques of Carotid and Vertebral Artery Stenting.- The Approach to Extracranial Carotid Artery Stenting.- Equipment for Extracranial Carotid Artery Stenting.- Emboli Protection Devices.- Complications of Carotid Artery Stenting.- The Approach to Intracranial Carotid Artery Intervention.- The Approach to Intracranial and Extracranial Vertebral Artery Stenting.- Endovascular Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke.- Challenging Case Illustrations And Pearls.- Case: Left Carotid Artery Stenting with a Challenging Type III Aortic Arch.- Case: Stenting of a Tortuous Left Internal Carotid Artery.- Case: Stenting of a Critical Internal Carotid Artery Stenosis With String Sign.- Case: Stenting of a Carotid Endarterectomy Patch Restenosis and Aneurysm.- Case: Carotid Stenting With Slow Flow and Distal Embolization.- Case: Acute Stroke Intervention With a Large Thrombotic Burden.- Case: Left Internal Carotid Artery Stenting in a Bovine Aortic Arch.- Case: Right Carotid Artery Stenting via Right Brachial Artery Approach.- Case: Ostial Innominate Artery Intervention.