Cardiac catheterization in congenital heart disease
Subtitle: pediatric and adult
By: Charles E. Mullins.
Publisher: Blackwell Futura
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405122009
Subjects: Cardiac catheterization in children.; Congenital heart disease in children -- Surgery.; Cardiac catheterization.; Heart Defects, Congenital -- diagnosis.; Heart Defects, Congenital -- therapy.; Heart Catheterization -- methods.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Organization of a pediatric/congenital cardiac catheterization laboratory; title: Medications used in and/or in conjunction with the cardiac catheterization laboratory and patient preparation for cardiac catheterization; title: Cardiac catheterization equipment; title: Vascular access: needle, wire, sheath/dilator and catheter introduction; title: Catheter manipulations; title: Special guide and deflector wires and techniques for their use; title: Flow directed catheters (floating balloon catheters); title: Transseptal left heart catheterization; title: Retrograde arterial cardiac catheterization; title: Hemodynamics, data acquisition, interpretation and presentation of data; title: Angiography-techniques; title: Foreign body retrieval; title: Balloon atrial septostomy; title: Blade/balloon atrial septostomy, special atrial septostomies, atrial stent septostomy; title: Balloon dilation procedures-general; title: Pulmonary valve dilation; title: Dilation of branch pulmonary artery stenosis; title: Dilation of coarctation of the aorta; title: native and re/residual coarctation; title: Aortic valve dilation; title: Mitral valvuloplasty; title: Dilation of tricuspid valve stenosis, systemic vein stenosis and miscellaneous intravascular/intracardiac stenoses; title: Intravascular stents in congenital heart disease-general considerations, equipment; title: Intravascular stent implant, pulmonary branch stenosis; title: Intravascular stents in venous stenosis; title: Miscellaneous arterial stents, including stents in the patent ductus arteriosus; title: Occlusion of abnormal small vessels, persistent shunts, vascular fistulae including perivalvular leaks; title: Transcatheter occlusion of the patent ductus arteriosus (PDA); title: Transcatheter atrial septal defect (ASD) occlusion; title: Occlusion of the patent foramen ovale (PFO), atrial baffle fenestrations and miscellaneous intracavitary communications; title: Transcatheter closure of ventricular septal defects; title: Purposeful perforation of atretic valves, other intravascular structures and recanalization of totally obstructed vessels; title: Special innovative and/or new, therapeutic catheterization procedures/devices; title: Endomyocardial biopsy; title: Phlebotomy, pericardial and pleural drainage; title: Complications of diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterizations.