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Cardiac catheterization in congenital heart disease : pediatric and adult /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mullins, Charles E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Futura, 2006.
Subjects:
Cardiac catheterization in children.
Congenital heart disease in children > Surgery.
Cardiac catheterization.
Heart Defects, Congenital > diagnosis.
Heart Defects, Congenital > therapy.
Cardiac Catheterization > methods.
Table of Contents:
  • Organization of a pediatric/congenital cardiac catheterization laboratory
  • Medications used in or in conjunction with the cardiac catheterization laboratory and patient preparation for cardiac catheterization
  • Cardiac catheterization equipment
  • Vascular access : needle, wire, sheath/dilator and catheter introduction
  • Catheter manipulations
  • Special guide and deflector wires and techniques for their use
  • Flow directed catheters (floating balloon catheters)
  • Transseptal left heart catheterization
  • Retrograde arterial cardiac catheterization
  • Hemodynamics, data acquisition, interpretation and presentation of data
  • Angiography-techniques
  • Foreign body retrieval
  • Balloon atrial septostomy
  • Blade/balloon atrial septostomy, special atrial septostomies, atrial "stent septostomy"
  • Balloon dilation procedures-general
  • Pulmonary valve balloon dilation
  • Dilation of branch pulmonary artery stenosis
  • Dilation of coarctation of the aorta-- native and re/residual coarctation
  • Aortic valve dilation
  • Mitral valvuloplasty
  • Dilation of tricuspid valve stenosis, systemic vein stenosis and miscellaneous intravascular/intracardiac stenoses
  • Intravascular stents in congenital heart disease-general considerations, equipment
  • Intravascular stent implant, pulmonary branch stenosis
  • Intravascular stents in venous stenosis
  • Coarctation of the aorta and miscellaneous arterial stents
  • Occlusion of abnormal small vessels, persistent shunts, vascular fistulae including perivalvular leaks
  • Transcatheter occlusion of the patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
  • Transcatheter atrial septal defect (ASD) occlusion
  • Occlusion of the patent foramen ovale (PFO), atrial baffle fenestrations and miscellaneous intracavitary communications
  • Transcatheter closure of ventricular septal defects
  • Purposeful perforation of atretic valves, other intravascular structures and recanalization of totally obstructed vessels
  • Special innovative or new, therapeutic catheterization procedures and devices
  • Endomyocardial biopsy
  • Phlebotomy, pericardial and pleural drainage
  • Complications of diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterizations