Cardiac Catheterization in Congenital Heart Disease: Pediatric and Adult

Cardiac Catheterization in Congenital Heart Disease: Pediatric and Adult......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Dedication......Page 10
Introduction......Page 11
1. Organization of a pediatric/congenital cardiac catheterization laboratory......Page 13
2. Medications used in or in conjunction with the cardiac catheterization laboratory and patient preparation for cardiac catheterization......Page 37
3. Cardiac catheterization equipment......Page 86
4. Vascular access: needle, wire, sheath/dilator and catheter introduction......Page 112
5. Catheter manipulations......Page 175
6. Special guide and deflector wires and techniques for their use......Page 200
7. Flow directed catheters (“floating” balloon catheters)......Page 225
8. Transseptal left heart catheterization......Page 235
9. Retrograde arterial cardiac catheterization......Page 267
10. Hemodynamics, data acquisition, and interpretation and presentation of data......Page 284
11. Angiographic techniques......Page 337
12. Foreign body removal......Page 362
13. Balloon atrial septostomy......Page 390
14. Blade/balloon atrial septostomy, special atrial septostomies, atrial “stent septostomy”......Page 404
15. Balloon dilation proceduresageneral......Page 422
16. Pulmonary valve balloon dilation......Page 442
17. Dilation of branch pulmonary artery stenosis......Page 453
18. Dilation of coarctation of the aortaanative and re/residual coarctation......Page 466
19. Aortic valve dilation......Page 484
20. Mitral valvuloplasty......Page 504
21. Dilation of tricuspid valve stenosis, systemic vein stenosis and miscellaneous intravascular/intracardiac stenoses......Page 532
22. Intravascular stents in congenital heart diseaseageneral considerations, equipment......Page 549
23. Intravascular stent implantapulmonary branch stenosis......Page 609
24. Intravascular stents in venous stenosis......Page 635
25. Coarctation of the aorta and miscellaneous arterial stents......Page 654
26. Occlusion of abnormal small vessels, persistent shunts, vascular .stulae including perivalvular leaks......Page 673
27. Transcatheter occlusion of the patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)......Page 705
28. Transcatheter atrial septal defect (ASD) occlusion......Page 740
29. Occlusion of the patent foramen ovale (PFO), atrial baffle fenestrations and miscellaneous intracavitary communications......Page 792
30. Transcatheter closure of ventricular septal defects......Page 815
31. Purposeful perforation of atretic valves, other intravascular structures and recanalization of totally obstructed vessels......Page 854
32. Special innovative or new, therapeutic catheterization procedures and devices......Page 871
33. Endomyocardial biopsy......Page 881
34. Phlebotomy, pericardial and pleural drainage......Page 893
35. Complications of diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterizations......Page 907
Index......Page 937