This article presents the findings of the Spanish Society of Cardiology registry of cardiac catheterization and interventional cardiology in the year 2004. Data were obtained from 121 centers, which comprise almost all cardiac catheterization laboratories in Spain. Of these, 110 performed catheterization mainly in adults, and 11 carried out procedures in only pediatric patients. In 2005, 111,45...

Background Invasive right heart catheterization plays a central role in the investigation of patients with cardiac and pulmonary vascular disease. Physiological provocations during invasive heart catheterization augment the diagnostic yield and can provide useful prognostic information. MRI catheterization combines invasive hemodynamic measurements with MRI structural and functional evaluations...

The results of the Registry of the Working Group on Cardiac Catheterization and Interventional Cardiology of the Spanish Society of Cardiology for 2003 are presented. Data were obtained from 112 centers representing nearly all cardiac catheterization laboratories in Spain; 104 centers performed mainly adult catheterization and 8 carried out pediatric procedures only. In 2003, 105,939 diagnostic...

Objectives. The aim of this study was to determine the relative risks of pediatric diagnostic, interventional and electrophysiologic catheterizations. Background. The role of the pediatric catheterization laboratory has evolved in the last decade as a therapeutic modality, although remaining an important tool for anatomic and hemodynamic diagnosis. Methods. A study of 4,952 consecutive pediatri...

diagnosis of cardiac tamponade has been mainly based on clinical features and echocardiography. however, ct may be an initial tool for the evaluation of cardiac tamponade because cutting edge ct is increasingly being installed in the emergency room, and presentation of cardiac tamponade can be nonspecific. importantly, ct has better spatial resolution compared with echocardiography. thus, ident...

mitral regurgitation (mr) is a common valvular lesion in the general population with considerable impact on mortality and morbidity. the mitraclip system (abbot laboratories, abbot park, il, usa) is a novel percutaneous approach for treating mr which involves mechanical edge-to-edge coaptation of the mitral leaflets. we present our initial experience with the mitraclip system in 5 patients. in ...