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Successful treatment of a nondeflatable balloon atrial septostomy catheter
N J Wilson1, J A Culham, G G Sandor
1Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Pediatric Cardiology
|July 1, 1990
Abstract:
A rare complication of balloon atrial septostomy is presented in an infant with D-transposition of the great arteries (D-TGA) undergoing a Rashkind septostomy. The balloon could not be deflated after the first pass across the atrial septum because of a blocked catheter lumen. Deflation was achieved with a fine-gauge needle introduced percutaneously via a transhepatic approach. The management of nondeflatable balloons is reviewed.