SUMMARY The case of an infant with complete transposition is presented. Embolization occurred from a balloon catheter used in performing a Rashkind septostomy. Additional Indexing Words: Oxygenation Renal infarction T HE USE of atrial septostomy as a temporary means of improving systemic oxygenation in infants with transposition of the great vessels was introduced by Rashkind and Miller in 1966...

Background: Vascular access used for pediatric cardiac catheterization is one of the most important factors that affects success procedure. We aimed to compare effect, success, and complications catheterizations performed by carotid cut-down or femoral puncture in newborns young infants. Methods: included who underwent our department between 28 January 2017 15 April 2021. These pa...

Case presentation: Female patient, 2 years and 3 months old, previously followed up by pediatric cardiology due to complex congenital heart disease characterized pulmonary atresia intact interventricular septum atrial septal defect with important right-to-left shunt in the late postoperative period of blalock surgery taussig modified on 04/30/2020 Glenn's 04/26/2021. Child was referred neurolog...

DOI: 10.5935/abc.20140045 Clinical data: Surgical correction of pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect and aortopulmonary collateral arteries was performed in three steps. The first one, with 19 months, with the unification of major collateral artery in the right upper lobe (8 mm) to the right pulmonary artery (RPA), which nurtured the right lower lobe, and Blalock-Taussig anastomosis...

The right ventricle to pulmonary artery connection with an extracardiac conduit, left pulmonary artery reconstruction, ligation of patent ductus arteriosus, and take-down of right Blalock±Taussig shunt were performed on a 1-year-8-month-old boy who had pulmonary atresia, ventricular septal defect, patent ductus arteriosus, and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries. He previously underwent th...