Book Review: Cardiac Catheterization and Angiocardiography
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Umbilical vessel cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography.
CONGENITAL CARDIAC DEFECTS are a major cause of death in the newborn. Fifteen to 20% of infants born with congenital heart disease succumb in the first week of life,1' 2 a period when clinical diagnosis is most difficult. Although prognosis is poor, some of these severely distressed infants can be saved if early diagnosis is followed by prompt palliative or curative operation. Lambert and assoc...
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CASE REPORT The patient, a 24-year-old woman, was admitted to Montefiore Hospital on January 10, 1958, for evaluation of suspected congenital heart disease. She gave a history of uncomplicated scarlet fever at the age of 2 years. Childhood activity was unlimited but undue fatigability was present. A heart murmur had been present since 1951. In the past 2 years there was an increase in weakness ...
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Vamovs METHODS have evolved over the years to handle the; specific problems of anm,~sthesia for infants and children undergoing diagnostic heart catheterization. It is generally agreed that some form of general sedation or anaesthesia is necessary. Virtlaally all forms of anaesthesia have been used. General anaesthesia i s recommended by some 1.2'4,8.a~ whereas ataracticS'] x~,x3 and other form...
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* angiocardiography are two methods ~A which are being widely used for the investigation of acquired and congenital heart disease. Since both of these procedures entail some risk to the patient, the Scientific Council of the American Heart Association deemed it advisable to establish a committee to evaluate this risk and to recommend methods to minimize it. The constituent members of the commit...
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Thermoluminescent dosimetry was used to measure the radiation exposure to the skin, thyroid and gonads in 50 consecutive pediatric patients undergoing cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography using cine photofluorography. Average exposures were 17.1 R to the skin, 2.3 R to the thyroid and 0.1 R to the gonads. Fluoroscopy accounted for approximately 80% of the skin and thyroid exposure and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1969
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/003591576906201251