BODY HABITUS CONSIDERATIONS DURING RIGHT HEART CATHETERIZATION

Role of right heart catheterization.

especially in medical patients with respiratory failure. Because of these data limitations, we do not believe that undue reliance on formulas and guidelines alone will prevent nutritional complications. Our case report illustrated the problem ofweaning difficulties due to nutritionally associated hypercapnia in a patient population not commonly thought to be susceptible to this problem. We feel...

Does right heart catheterization prevent perioperative complications?

Considerations regarding the technique for transseptal left heart catheterization.

THE TRANSSEPTAL method of left heart catheterization1-4 has been widely employed in recent years, and in many laboratories no important complications associated with its use have been reported.5 '5 Increasing application of the technique as originally employed in this laboratory5 and the modification in which an angiographic catheter traverses the interatrial septum'6-20 has been accompanied by...

Perforation of Heart during Cardiac Catheterization

Case Report The patient, K.K., a 3-year-old boy, was admitted to the General Infirmary at Leeds in January 1962 for investigation of his congenital heart disease, with moderate dyspnea and eyanosis on effort. Physical examination showed normal development. There was no eyanosis at rest, and the fingers and toes were not clubbed. The peripheral pulses were normal. Inspection of the neck revealed...

An efficient, free-breathing protocol for MR right heart catheterization

Methods The baseline MR examination begins with cardiac localizers. At this stage it is important to verify isocenter because if the patient is too deep in the bore then femoral vascular access sheaths are inaccessible to the operator. Through-plane phase contrast (PC) scans in the ascending aorta and main pulmonary artery follow for quantification of Qp and Qs. To avoid the need to repeat long...