BACKGROUND The most important complication following cardiac catheterization required urgent therapeutic management is vessel obstruction and arterial thrombosis. The morbidity following this complication can be decreased by surgery intervention and/or thrombolytic drugs. OBJECTIVES In this study we evaluated the effects of ranitidine and hydrocortisone on pediatric patients with congenital h...

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Staged surgical repair and interventional cardiac catheterization have contributed to improved outcomes for children with congenital heart disease. As a result, there are increasing numbers of children and adolescents who must undergo multiple invasive cardiac procedures at various developmental stages. During these procedures, management of pain and anxiety using nonpharmacological methods is ...

DOI: 10.5935/abc.20170134 In pediatric patients with congenital heart disease associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH-CHD), deciding about surgery may be difficult depending on the diagnostic scenario. Most patients with communications between the cardiac chambers or the great arteries can now be operated on quite safely, with excellent results. Pulmonary hypertension accounts for ...

background: t ranscatheter closure of patent ductus arteriosus (pda) has become an alternative treatment to surgery. we evaluated the long-term results of the transcatheter closure of pda with the amplatzer duct occluder (ado) in children. methods: between may 2004 and october 2012, 138 children with pda (43 males and 95 females) underwent transcatheter pda closure. clinical, electrocardiograph...

Staged surgical repair and interventional cardiac catheterization have contributed to improved outcomes for children with congenital heart disease. As a result, there are increasing numbers of children and adolescents who must undergo multiple invasive cardiac procedures at various developmental stages. During these procedures, management of pain and anxiety using nonpharmacological methods is ...

A critical aspect of most cardiac catheterization procedures is the evaluation of myocardial function. At its simplest, this consists of a visual assessment of the left ventricular (LV) contractile pattern from the left ventriculogram, together with measurements of LV end-diastolic pressure. In laboratories where most patients have right-sided heart catheterization and cardiac output measuremen...

86 Vol 45 (Supplement 1) 2014 Therapeutic catheterization increases the role in pediatric cardiology practice, especially in congenital heart diseases. It may be classified into two groups: 1) Dilatation (open up) that use balloon catheters and endovascular stents; 2) Closure (close down) that use occluding devices eg, occlusion of patent ductus arteriosus (Lertsapcharoen et al, 1999, 2009). In...