Product Description: Interventional Pericardiology gives a unique and comprehensive view on an often neglected but clinically very important part of cardiovascular disease:  The pericardium and the adjacent myocardium or epicardium.  The authors of this up-to-date compendium on pericardial disease etiology, diagnostics and treatment, Professors Bernhard Maisch (Marburg), Arsen Ristić (Belgrade), Petar Seferović (Belgrade) and Teresa Tsang (Rochester) focus on recent advances to the new window that has been opened to the heart by flexible and video-assisted pericardioscopy, modern biochemical, immunohistological and molecular tools for the analysis of epicardial and pericardial biopsies,  which have been acquired safely under pericardioscopic control by the interventional pericardiologist...read more