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.

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.