They put a catheter (a long, thin tube) into a blood vessel, then guide it the heart. Cardiac catheterizations help doctors diagnose and treat many different heart problems. If your child is old ...

A total of 15,127 admissions of children who were ... the association between arterial catheterization-associated complications and specific procedures. Cardiac surgery, bone marrow ...

Rather than a large cut (incision) on the chest from open-heart surgery, children having cardiac catheterization need only a tiny cut where doctors put in the catheter. There are 2 main reasons ...

Dr. Grant Burch is one of our two heart catheterization specialists. Both he and Dr. Laurie Armsby (not shown) have advanced training and extensive experience using minimally invasive procedures to ...

MRI-guided and XMR catheterization has a significant ... UK 2 Department of Congenital Heart Disease, Evelina London Children's Hospital, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK ...

The details that doctors gather during the procedure help them plan the best timing for heart surgery, the steps of the operation itself and the care a child will need after. Doctors also use ...

These fenestrations are often amenable to closure in the cardiac catheter laboratory, using the same type of devices that would be used to close an ASD. 24 Many of these children are already ...

Following cardiac catheterization, patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) have a higher risk of short-term mortality than patients with non-STEMI (NSTEMI), who have a ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the ability of clinicians involved in the provision of paediatric intensive care to estimate cardiac index in ventilated children, based on physical examination and clinical and ...

Exclusion of acute myocardial infarction preoperatively, particularly in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization, is an important requirement for optimal results following coronary ...