Congenital Heart Disease The Catheterization Manual /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bergersen, Lisa (Editor), Foerster, Susan (Editor), Marshall, Audrey C. (Editor), Meadows, Jeffery (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.

This manual provides a comprehensive overview of how the cardiac catheterization laboratory in a pediatric cardiology division works. Chapters are organized in the order in which a case progresses. Specific types of cases are discussed in detail and hemodynamics is covered in depth. Information tabl...

Table of Contents:

• The Basics
• Hemodynamics
• Precatheterization Assessment and Preparation
• In the Lab
• After the Case
• A Few Final Words of Advice
• Specific Cases
• Pulmonary Valve Dilation
• Critical Pulmonary Stenosis
• Pulmonary Atresia with Intact Ventricular Septum (PA/IVS)
• Aortic Valve Dilation
• Critical Aortic Stenosis
• Mitral Valve Dilation
• Pulmonary Angioplasty
• Balloon Dilation and Stent Placement for Coarctation
• RV-PA Conduit Dilation and Stenting
• The Pre-Glenn and Pre-Fontan Catheterization
• Device Closure of Fontan Fenestrations
• ASD Device Closure
• PFO Device Closure
• PDA Closure
• Creating Atrial Septal Defects
• Pericardiocentesis
• Endomyocardial Biopsy
• Coronary Angiography.