OBJECTIVE To determine the complication rate during the catheterization in adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) in a pediatric catheterization laboratory (PCL). BACKGROUND An increasing number of patients with CHD are surviving into adulthood, with diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization being essential for the management of their disease. The complication rate during the ...

Background: Nursing care for patients undergoing cardiac catheterization requires an expert nurse who understands the types of complications that can occur, as well assessment skills to spot them. The combination nursing knowledge and during period before after aims assure safe accurate procedure, improving physical mental health.
 Aim study: To evaluate effectiveness intervention on physi...

Pulmonary hypertension has been associated with poor outcome after liver transplantation. We assessed the diagnostic accuracy of Doppler echocardiography in detecting significant pulmonary hypertension. Seventy-four potential liver transplant candidates underwent Doppler echocardiography in which the systolic right ventricular pressure (RVsys) was used to estimate the systolic pulmonary artery ...

Methods We included 139 patients undergoing CMR and right heart catheterization within 2 days (n=151 test pairs) for the evaluation of known or suspected pulmonary hypertension. Right ventricular end-systolic volume index (ESVI) and stroke volume index (SVI) were obtained, respectively, from cardiac cine images and phasecontrast of the pulmonary artery after adjusting for body surface area. Rig...

In the near future it should be possible to estimate the severity of mitral regurgitation and select patients for operation on purely clinical grounds. In the present state of knowledge haemodynamic data are obtained from right and left heart catheterization to give accuracy to the diagnosis of the individual case and quantitative meaning to the physical signs of the disease. Catheterization mu...

Central venous pressure measurement may be misleading in selective left heart failure and in patients with high pulmonary vascular resistance. More direct information about pulmonary venous pressure and left heart filling pressures may be obtained by catheterization of the pulmonary artery with flow-directed balloon catheters. The use of such catheters, without radiographic control, by those in...

In neonates and infants with congenital heart disease (CHD), cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is an established imaging modality in all patients in whom echocardiography does not provide sufficient information and definitive diagnosis. CMR is noninvasive, and does not involve vascular catheterization or ionizing radiation. Therefore the use of CMR obviates the potential risks of cardiac ...

Although many cases of peripartum cardiomyopathy have been reported in the literature, detailed data from left heart catheterization and contrast ventriculography are unavailable. A patient with peripartum cardiomyopathy had catheterization performed to clarify the diagnosis. Hemodynamics at rest and with exercise, angiographic volumes, and indices of left ventricular function are presented. Th...

Diagnosis and prognostication in patients with complex cardiopulmonary disease can be a clinical challenge. A new procedure, MRI catheterization, involves invasive right-sided heart catheterization performed inside the MRI scanner using MRI instead of traditional radiographic fluoroscopic guidance. MRI catheterization combines simultaneous invasive hemodynamic and MRI functional assessment in a...