A RARE COMPLICATION OF A COMMON PROCEDURE: PULMONARY ARTERY PSEUDOANEURYSM SECONDARY TO RIGHT HEART CATHETERIZATIONdoi:10.1016/S0735-1097(20)32995-8Ivan PenaElsevier BVJournal of the American College of Cardiology
If your test results point to PAH, the best way to be sure you have it is with a procedure called a right heart catheterization. During the test, you'll be awake or lightly sedated. The doctor puts a thin tube, called a catheter, into a large vein either in your neck, groin, or ...
Cardiac catheterization. If you might have blockages in your heart arteries, you can get this test, in which a long, thin flexible tube called a catheter is inserted in a blood vessel and guided to your heart. Dye can then be injected to help the arteries show up on X-rays. Heart Dis...
Access to the coronary sinus 26 during percutaneous catheterization involves inserting an introducer sheath into a vein (e.g., femoral vein, subclavian, etc.) and feeding a catheter, under fluoroscopy or other imaging means, into the right atrium. An abrupt curve in the catheter, or ...
The patient, John Steenmeyer, 76, of Bellingham, Wash., was discharged this week from the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. His new mitral valve is functioning well, said Dr. James McCabe, who led the catheterization procedure on April 27. ...
Left heart catheterizations indicated satisfactory valve function in 21 out of 23 patients. However, severe aortic regurgitation developed in 13 patients, leading to death or reoperation [62]. An examination of explanted Teflon valves revealed the stiffening and calcification of the fabric, causing ...
While women will present with similar symptoms as men when having an acute myocardial infarction, depending upon the type of heart attack, they are less likely to receive the same aggressive care, including heart catheterization,angioplasty, and stenting (the procedure during catheterization where the...
The current, second-generation system uses the less invasive LIVE procedure described previously and has been used in 35 patients. No significant differences in terms of major or minor adverse events have been reported between the 2 procedures. At 12 months, significant improvements were reported in...
Coronary angioplasty and stenting.This procedure follows right after a cardiac catheterization and is done to open clogged arteries. Once the catheter reaches the blockage, the cardiologist inflates a tiny balloon at its end, which opens the blood vessel and allows blood flow to resume. At the ...
distribution in the left and right lungs. Cardiac CT is an alternative if CMR is not feasible. Right heart catheterization is also required when intervention is considered or when information on haemodynamics is needed, as pu...