CLINICAL PROGRESS Retrograde Arterial Catheterization of the Left Heart

CLINICAL PROGRESS Retrograde Arterial Catheterization of the Left Heart

HISTORICALLY, retrograde catheterization of the arterial circulation appears to have been the first method employed in the study of the left heart. Cournand1 cites the physiologic studies of Chauveau and Marey. They recorded pressure tracings obtained from the left ventricle of the erect, unanesthetized horse in 1861.2 3 Almost 100 years later, in 1950, three groups of workers reported applicat...

Combined Percutaneous Retrograde Aortic and Transseptal Left Heart Catheterization.

Left heart catheterization in man has assumed increasing importance with the rapid advances in cardiac surgery for lesions of the left side of the heart. Zimmerman, Scott, and Becker (1950) were the first to perform left ventricular catheterization, passing a catheter in retrograde fashion from aorta to left ventricle. Subsequently the transbronchial (Facquet et al., 1952; Allison and Linden, 1...

Hemodynamic effects of isoproterenol infusion in patients with normal and diseased mitral valves.

Twenty-six adult patients were studied by coimbined right and left heart catheterization to define or further to quantitate valvular defects suspected on clinical grounds. Right heart catheterization was accomplished in the usual fashion from an antecubital vein and the left heart was studied by combined transseptal left atrial and retrograde left ventricular catheterization.4 By use of these m...

Experience with retrograde left heart catheterization through the Bjork-Shiley aortic valve prosthesis: a preliminary report.

Recalibrating the barometer: is it time to take a critical look at noninvasive approaches to measuring filling pressures?

The ability to measure pressures within the heart has been one of the most important diagnostic and therapeutic tools within the cardiologist’s armamentarium over the past half century. Whereas this measurement initially required direct left ventricular puncture,1 transeptal catheterization,2 or retrograde placement of a catheter into the left ventricle, the advent of the Swan-Ganz catheter all...