Cardiac Catheterization in Congenital Heart Disease: Pediatric and Adult

The rapidly growing population of adults surviving with congenital heart lesions along with the success of
interventional cardiology in the child and adolescent has spawned an incredible interest in adapting the technology for
the adult congenital patients. Dr. Mullins, a pioneer in this area, has written an outstanding reference which covers
all aspects of performing diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterization procedures on patients of all ages. This
illustrated book details the equipment and techniques for performing safe and successful procedures, with a strong
emphasis on avoiding complications. It also includes the requirements of a catheterization laboratory for congenital
heart patients, as well as guidance for setting up and operating such a laboratory. "Cardiac Catheterization in
Congenital Heart Disease" serves as an essential manual for pediatric and adult interventional cardiologists worldwide.

Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Organization of a pediatric/congenital cardiac catheterization laboratory
2 Medications used in or in conjunction with the cardiac catheterization laboratory and patient preparation for cardiac
catheterization
3 Cardiac catheterization equipment
4 Vascular access: needle, wire,sheath/dilator and catheter introduction
5 Catheter manipulations
6 Special guide and deflector wires and techniques for their use
7 Flow directed catheters ("floating" balloon catheters)
8 Transseptal left heart catheterization
9 Retrograde arterial cardiac catheterization
10 Hemodynamics, data acquisition, and interpretation and presentation of data
11 Angiographic techniques
12 Foreign body removal
13 Balloon atrial septostomy
14 Blade/balloon atrial septostomy, special atrial septostomies, atrial "stent septostomy"
15 Balloon dilation proceduresageneral
16 Pulmonary valve balloon dilation
17 Dilation of branch pulmonary artery stenosis
18 Dilation of coarctation of the aortaanative and re/residual coarctation
19 Aortic valve dilation
20 Mitral valvuloplasty
21 Dilation of tricuspid valve stenosis, systemic vein stenosis and miscellaneous intravascular/intracardiac stenoses
22 Intravascular stents in congenital heart diseaseageneral considerations, equipment
23 Intravascular stent implantapulmonary branch stenosis
24 Intravascular stents in venous stenosis
25 Coarctation of the aorta and miscellaneous arterial stents
26 Occlusion of abnormal small vessels, persistent shunts, vascular fistulae including perivalvular leaks
27 Transcatheter occlusion of the patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
28 Transcatheter atrial septal defect (ASD) occlusion
29 Occlusion of the patent foramen ovale (PFO), atrial baffle fenestrations and miscellaneous intracavitary
communications
30 Transcatheter closure of ventricular septal defects
31 Purposeful perforation of atretic valves, other intravascular structures and recanalization of totally obstructed
vessels
32 Special innovative or new, therapeutic catheterization procedures and devices
33 Endomyocardial biopsy
34 Phlebotomy, pericardial and pleural drainage
35 Complications of diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterizations Index