background: primary percutaneous coronary intervention (primary pci) is the method of choice in establishing reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction (ami) patients. the aim of this study was to determine the success rate of primary pci in a university medical center in iran with a view to promoting it as a first-line therapy in patients with ami, especially in centers with established cathet...

pressure in congestive heart failure in infancy. A retrospective study was made of the mean right atrial pressure in 131 infants with congenital heart disease. 56 are considered to have been in congestive heart failure at the time of cardiac catheterization, and 75 patients are considered not to have been so. The mean value for mean right atrial pressure was 7-7 mm. in the group who were in hea...

In I970, Swan and associates reported on their results in catheterization of the right heart with a soft, flow-directed, balloon-tipped catheter of their design. Using the 5F size catheter the pulmonary artery was rapidly and safely catheterized in 95 per cent of patients in intensive care situations without the aid of fluoroscopy. The availability of the Swan-Ganz catheter (Edwards Laboratorie...

A new explanation for certain instances of acute reversible congestive phenomena in constrictive pericarditis is offered on the basis of 6 patients studied clinically and by right heart catheterization. In 2 cases intermittent tamponade in the presence of a rigid pericardiuma accounted for the reversibility of the congestive state, as contrasted with 4 cases presenting the chronic progressive c...

A method of transseptal catheterization of the left side of the heart via the right subclavian vein has been described. It was attempted in 29 patients and the left atrium was entered in 26 patients. The left ventricle was entered in 2I of the 23 patients (9I%) where entry was attempted. The risks and advantages of this technique have been discussed. It is a useful additional method for cathete...

neous method of right and left heart catheterization was used in 127 patients. In infants and children weighing more than 10 pounds, the percutaneous method was found to be an effective technic associated with a 3% incidence of diminished arterial pulses in the catheterized limb. All patients in this weight group, except one, had left heart catheterization by this technic. The method was deemed...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) can be a rapidly progressive and fatal disease. Although right heart catheterization remains the gold standard in evaluation of PH, echocardiography remains an important tool in screening, diagnosing, evaluating, and following these patients. In this article, we will review the important echocardiographic parameters of the right heart in evaluating its anatomy, hemod...