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Aortic catheterisation via percutaneous left ventricular puncture
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
|January 1, 1983
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Direct percutaneous left ventricular puncture offers an alternative when standard catheterisation fails. This method provides essential hemodynamic and angiographic data for correcting aortic arch anomalies.
Area of Science:
- Cardiovascular medicine
- Interventional cardiology
- Diagnostic imaging
Background:
- Retrograde catheterisation and angiography of the ascending aorta are standard diagnostic procedures.
- Brachial or femoral approaches may not always be feasible for aortic angiography.
Abstract:
When retrograde catheterisation and angiography of the ascending aorta from the brachial or femoral approach is not possible, this can be accomplished by direct percutaneous left ventricular puncture. The haemodynamic and angiographic information obtained was essential to surgical correction of aortic arch anomalies as illustrated in two patients.