Includes bibliographical references and index.

Brief history of image-guided therapy -- Noninvasive vascular diagnosis -- Invasive vascular diagnosis -- Diagnostic catheters and guidewires -- Balloon catheters -- Stents -- Thrombectomy devices -- Embolic protection devices -- Atherectomy devices -- Embolization agents -- Aortic stent-grafts -- Inferior vena cava filters -- Endovascular laser therapy -- Intellectual property management -- Clinical vascular examination -- Treatment of medical emergencies -- Radiation safety and protection in the interventional fluroscopy environment -- Management of risk factors for peripheral artery disease -- Principles of intraprocedural analgesics and sedatives -- Contrast agents -- Principles of thrombolytic agents -- Antiplatelet agents and anticoagulants -- Vasoactive agents -- Antibiotic prophylaxis in interventional radiology -- Angioplasty -- Restenosis -- Principles of arterial access -- Closure devices -- Principles of venous access -- Vascular anatomy of the upper extremity -- Anatomy of the lower limb -- Acute arterial occlusive disease of the upper extremity -- Acute lower extremity ischemia -- Chronic upper extremity ischemia and revascularization -- Aortoiliac revascularization -- Endovascular management of chronic femoropopliteal disease -- Infrapopliteal revascularization -- Subintimal angioplasty -- Management of extremity vascular trauma -- Management of postcatheterization pseudoaneurysms -- Endovascular treatment of peripheral aneurysms -- management of vascular artheritides -- Congential vascular anomalies: classification and terminology -- Management of low-flow vascular malformations -- Management of high-flow vascular anomalies -- Abdominal aorta and the inferior vena cava -- Aortic endografting -- Fenestrated stent-grafting of juxtarenalaortic aneurysms -- Management of thoracoabdominal aneurysms by branched endograft technology -- Endoleaks: classification, diagnosis, and treatment -- Endovascular treatment of dissection ot the aorta and its branches -- Alimentary tract vasculature -- Management of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage -- Management of lower gastrointestinal bleeding -- Acute mesenteric ischemia -- Chronic mesenteric ischemia -- Renal vasculature -- Renovascular interventions -- Acute renal ischemia -- Renal artery embolization -- Management of renal angiomyolipoma -- Transvenous renal biopsy -- Transjugular liver biopsy -- Chemoembolization of hepatocellular carcinoma -- Radioembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma -- Embolotherapy for the management of liver malignancies other than hepatocellular carcinoma -- Radioembolization of liver metastases -- Bland embolization for hepatic malignancies -- Portal vein embolization -- Vascular intervention in the liver transplant patient -- Management of trauma to the liver and spleen -- Splenic embolization in nontraumatized patients -- Management of visceral aneurysms -- Intraarterial ports for chemotherapy -- Vascular anatomy of the pelvis -- Uterine fibroid embolization -- Peripartum hemorrhage -- Management of pelvic hemorrhage in trauma -- Management of male varicocele -- Management of female venous congestion syndrome