Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Includes bibliographical references and index

Organization of a pediatric/congenital cardiac catheterization laboratory -- Medications used in and/or in conjunction with the cardiac catheterization laboratory and patient preparation for cardiac catheterization -- Cardiac catheterization equipment -- Vascular access: needle, wire, sheath/dilator and catheter introduction -- Catheter manipulations -- Special guide and deflector wires and techniques for their use -- Flow directed catheters (floating balloon catheters) -- Transseptal left heart catheterization -- Retrograde arterial cardiac catheterization -- Hemodynamics, data acquisition, interpretation and presentation of data -- Angiography-techniques -- Foreign body retrieval -- Balloon atrial septostomy -- Blade/balloon atrial septostomy, special atrial septostomies, atrial stent septostomy -- Balloon dilation procedures-general -- Pulmonary valve dilation -- Dilation of branch pulmonary artery stenosis --

Dilation of coarctation of the aorta-- native and re/residual coarctation -- Aortic valve dilation -- Mitral valvuloplasty -- Dilation of tricuspid valve stenosis, systemic vein stenosis and miscellaneous intravascular/intracardiac stenoses -- Intravascular stents in congenital heart disease-general considerations, equipment -- Intravascular stent implant, pulmonary branch stenosis -- Intravascular stents in venous stenosis -- Coarctation of the aorta and miscellaneous arterial stents -- Occlusion of abnormal small vessels, persistent shunts, vascular fistulae including perivalvular leaks -- Transcatheter occlusion of the patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) -- Transcatheter atrial septal defect (ASD) occlusion -- Occlusion of the patent foramen ovale (PFO), atrial baffle fenestrations and miscellaneous intracavitary communications -- Transcatheter closure of ventricular septal defects --

Purposeful perforation of atretic valves, other intravascular structures and recanalization of totally obstructed vessels -- Special innovative or new, therapeutic catheterization procedures and devices -- Endomyocardial biopsy -- Phlebotomy, pericardial and pleural drainage -- Complications of diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterizations.