The Brockenbrough Transseptal Catheterization

The Brockenbrough Transseptal Catheterization: an Unusual Complication.

Transseptal Left Heart Catheterization

THE PHYSICIAN who desires to carry out hemodynamic or angiocardiographic studies of the left side of the heart has a large number of technics froim which to choose.1 The ideal method for such investigations should fulfill a number of criteria. First of all, the method must be relatively safe. In order to gain wide acceptaniee it must be technically simple and individuals trained in the standard...

[Left heart catheterization by the transseptal route].

PURPOSE To analyse the transseptal catheterization technique, its indications and possible complications. METHODS The transseptal catheterization has been undertaken in 233 patients, 202 children (aged 0.1 to 16 years) with congenital heart disease and 31 adults (aged 37 to 73 years) submitted to mitral valvuloplasty. The Mullins technique was employed to access left heart chambers. RESULTS...

Newer Techniques of Transseptal Left-Heart Catheterization

IN APRIL 1958, the author first succeeded in catheterizing the left atrium of a patient percutaneously by piercing the interatrial. septum from the groin with a long, curved, 17-gauge needle and advancing the ensheathing 7-French plastic catheter over the needle and into the left atrium.' Fine polyetlhylene tubing could then be threaded through the transseptal catheter without any danger of amn...

Newer Techniques of Transseptal Left-Heart Catheterization

IN APRIL 1958, the author first succeeded in catheterizing the left atrium of a patient percutaneously by piercing the interatrial. septum from the groin with a long, curved, 17-gauge needle and advancing the ensheathing 7-French plastic catheter over the needle and into the left atrium.' Fine polyetlhylene tubing could then be threaded through the transseptal catheter without any danger of amn...